Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in spice, a SPICE protocol client and server library. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following issues: CVE-2013-4130 David Gibson of Red Hat discovered that SPICE incorrectly handled certain network errors. A remote user able to initiate a SPICE connection to an application acting as a SPICE server could use this flaw to crash the application. CVE-2013-4282 Tomas Jamrisko of Red Hat discovered that SPICE incorrectly handled long passwords in SPICE tickets. A remote user able to initiate a SPICE connection to an application acting as a SPICE server could use this flaw to crash the application. Applications acting as a SPICE server must be restarted for this update to take effect.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 0.11.0-1+deb7u1. For the testing distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 0.12.4-0nocelt2. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 0.12.4-0nocelt2. We recommend that you upgrade your spice packages.

spice on Debian Linux

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

• http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2839.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25