Debian DLA-2524-1 : spice-vdagent security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 144956

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in spice-vdagent, a spice guest agent for enchancing SPICE integeration and experience.

CVE-2017-15108

spice-vdagent does not properly escape save directory before passing to shell, allowing local attacker with access to the session the agent runs in to inject arbitrary commands to be executed.

CVE-2020-25650

A flaw was found in the way the spice-vdagentd daemon handled file transfers from the host system to the virtual machine. Any unprivileged local guest user with access to the UNIX domain socket path `/run/spice-vdagentd/spice-vdagent-sock` could use this flaw to perform a memory denial of service for spice-vdagentd or even other processes in the VM system. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. This flaw affects spice-vdagent versions 0.20 and previous versions.

CVE-2020-25651

A flaw was found in the SPICE file transfer protocol. File data from the host system can end up in full or in parts in the client connection of an illegitimate local user in the VM system. Active file transfers from other users could also be interrupted, resulting in a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality as well as system availability.

CVE-2020-25652

A flaw was found in the spice-vdagentd daemon, where it did not properly handle client connections that can be established via the UNIX domain socket in `/run/spice-vdagentd/spice-vdagent-sock`. Any unprivileged local guest user could use this flaw to prevent legitimate agents from connecting to the spice-vdagentd daemon, resulting in a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

CVE-2020-25653

A race condition vulnerability was found in the way the spice-vdagentd daemon handled new client connections. This flaw may allow an unprivileged local guest user to become the active agent for spice-vdagentd, possibly resulting in a denial of service or information leakage from the host. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality as well as system availability.

For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 0.17.0-1+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your spice-vdagent packages.

For the detailed security status of spice-vdagent please refer to its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/spice-vdagent

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected spice-vdagent package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 144956

File Name: debian_DLA-2524.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 1/14/2021

Updated: 1/30/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-25653

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-15108

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:spice-vdagent, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/13/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/20/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-15108, CVE-2020-25650, CVE-2020-25651, CVE-2020-25652, CVE-2020-25653

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