USN-3202-1: Spice vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3202-1

20th February, 2017

spice vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:

• Ubuntu 16.10



• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS



• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary

Spice could be made to crash or run programs if it received specially
crafted network traffic.

Software description

• spice
  - SPICE protocol client and server library
  
  

Details

Frediano Ziglio discovered that Spice incorrectly handled certain client
messages. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Spice to crash,
resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package version:

Ubuntu 16.10:

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:

To update your system, please follow these instructions:
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CVE-2016-9578