| Name | CVE-2017-12194 |
| Description | A flaw was found in the way spice-client processed certain messages sent from the server. An attacker, having control of malicious spice-server, could use this flaw to crash the client or execute arbitrary code with permissions of the user running the client. spice-gtk versions through 0.34 are believed to be vulnerable. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 898503 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| spice-gtk (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 0.25-1+deb8u2 | vulnerable |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 0.33-3.3+deb9u2 | vulnerable |
| buster | 0.35-2 | fixed |
| bullseye | 0.39-1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 0.42-1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 0.42-2.1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| spice-gtk | source | wheezy | (not affected) | | | |
| spice-gtk | source | (unstable) | 0.35-1 | | | 898503 |
Notes
[stretch] - spice-gtk <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[jessie] - spice-gtk <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[wheezy] - spice-gtk <not-affected> (Vulnerable code is not in any binary package, only in the source package)
Proposed patches in: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1240165
Although not present in the binary packages the (de)marshal.py are used to
generate repsecitve code which should be in libspice-common-client.