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01 Record

CVE-2016-9577

A vulnerability was discovered in SPICE before 0.13.90 in the server's protocol handling. An authenticated attacker could send crafted messages to the SPICE server causing a heap overflow leading to a

HighPUBLISHEDCNA: redhat
CNA base score7.5 CVSS v3.xCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

02 Description

A vulnerability was discovered in SPICE before 0.13.90 in the server's protocol handling. An authenticated attacker could send crafted messages to the SPICE server causing a heap overflow leading to a

03 Exploitation and scoring

Exploitation
Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
SSVC decision
Not assessed by CISA
EPSS probability
3.79% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS percentile
Equal to or higher than the score of 89.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
NVD base score
8.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
NVD CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD analysis status
Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
Red Hat severity
Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

04 Metadata

Published
2018-07-27 20:00Z8 YR AGO
Last updated
2024-08-06 02:59Z2 YR AGO
Reserved
2016-11-23
Assigning CNA
redhat
Record state
PUBLISHED
Severity
High (CVSS 7.5)
CNA CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
  • CWE-20Improper Input ValidationClass
  • CWE-122Heap-based Buffer OverflowVariant
  • CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass
  • CWE-787Out-of-bounds WriteBase
Data version
5.1
Document digest
8e8a287b0501d665ccdd0f2e2cd98cdb7bdd86efd457082e06453d077442820f

05 Affected products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
Red Hatspice0.13.90—

06 References

07 Fixed in

Debian 12

  • spice
    Fixed in 0.12.8-2.1

Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.

Debian 13

  • spice
    Fixed in 0.12.8-2.1

Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.

Debian 14

  • spice
    Fixed in 0.12.8-2.1

Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

  • spice
    Fixed in 0.12.4-0nocelt2ubuntu1.4

Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

  • spice
    Fixed in 0.12.6-4ubuntu0.2

Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.

A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.