CVE-2016-9578

Publication date 6 February 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

A vulnerability was discovered in SPICE before 0.13.90 in the server's protocol handling. An attacker able to connect to the SPICE server could send crafted messages which would cause the process to crash.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
spice	17.04 zesty	Fixed 0.12.8-2ubuntu1
	16.10 yakkety	Fixed 0.12.8-1ubuntu0.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 0.12.6-4ubuntu0.2
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 0.12.4-0nocelt2ubuntu1.4
	12.04 LTS precise	Ignored end of life

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
spice	Upstream: ?h=0.12 Upstream: ?h=0.12

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.5 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

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

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3202-1
Spice vulnerabilities
20 February 2017

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9578