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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3907-1 spice -- security update

Date Reported:

11 Jul 2017

Affected Packages:

spice

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-7506.

More information:

Frediano Ziglio discovered a buffer overflow in spice, a SPICE protocol client and server library which may result in memory disclosure, denial of service and potentially the execution of arbitrary code.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 0.12.5-1+deb8u5.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.12.8-2.1+deb9u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your spice packages.