01 Record

CVE-2016-9578

A vulnerability was discovered in SPICE before 0.13.90 in the server's protocol handling. An attacker able to connect to the SPICE server could send crafted messages which would cause the process to

HighPUBLISHEDCNA: redhat

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

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02 Description

A vulnerability was discovered in SPICE before 0.13.90 in the server's protocol handling. An attacker able to connect to the SPICE server could send crafted messages which would cause the process to

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: 2.46% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS percentile: Equal to or higher than the score of 84.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
NVD base score: 7.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
NVD CVSS vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/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 21:00Z8 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:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses

CWE-20Improper Input ValidationClass
CWE-770Allocation of Resources Without Limits or ThrottlingBase
CWE-1286Improper Validation of Syntactic Correctness of InputBase

Data version

5.1

Document digest

99a307a9809a4d174eba9e7eee2cf1df4fc86cd8512bf60653c64c50af02b3ab

05 Affected products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms

Red Hatspice0.13.90—

06 References

bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9578x_refsource_CONFIRM
access.redhat.comRHSA-2017:0552https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0552vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
access.redhat.comRHSA-2017:0254https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0254vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
www.securityfocus.com96118http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96118vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
www.debian.orgDSA-3790https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3790vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2017:0253http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0253.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2017:0549http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0549.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT

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.

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