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Ubuntu 13.04 / 13.10 : spice vulnerability (USN-2027-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 70874

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

Tomas Jamrisko discovered that SPICE incorrectly handled long passwords in SPICE tickets. An attacker could use this issue to cause the SPICE server to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

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

Solution

Update the affected libspice-server1 package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/2027-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 70874

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2027-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/13/2013

Updated: 9/19/2019

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libspice-server1, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.10

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/12/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/2/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4282

USN: 2027-1