Bug 1501200 (CVE-2017-12194) - CVE-2017-12194 spice-gtk: Integer overflows causing buffer overflows in spice-client
Summary: CVE-2017-12194 spice-gtk: Integer overflows causing buffer overflows in spic...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-12194
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1501201 1555301 1555302
Blocks: 1498495 1498774
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Reported: 2017-10-12 08:42 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:24 UTC (History)
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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.
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Last Closed: 2018-03-14 12:50:48 UTC

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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2017-10-12 08:42:04 UTC 
When a spice-client connects to a malicious spice-server, it was possible to crash the client or execute arbitrary code with the permissions of user running the client, when certain messages were sent from the server to the spice-client.
Comment 3 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2018-03-14 12:48:27 UTC 
More details about this flaw is available in:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1240165
Comment 4 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2018-03-14 12:49:12 UTC 
Created spice-gtk tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1555301]
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