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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Spice vulnerabilities (USN-2766-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 86310

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2766-1 advisory.

 Frediano Ziglio discovered multiple buffer overflows, undefined behavior signed integer operations, race conditions, memory leaks, and denial of service issues in Spice. A malicious guest operating system could potentially exploit these issues to escape virtualization. (CVE-2015-5260, CVE-2015-5261)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected libspice-server-dev, libspice-server1 and / or spice-client packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2766-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 86310

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2766-1.nasl

Version: 2.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/7/2015

Updated: 8/27/2024

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: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-5260

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libspice-server-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libspice-server1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:spice-client

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/6/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/7/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-5260, CVE-2015-5261

USN: 2766-1