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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2027-1
November 12, 2013
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
Summary:
SPICE could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network
traffic.
Software Description:
Details:
Tomas Jamrisko discovered that SPICE incorrectly handled long passwords in
SPICE tickets. An attacker could use this issue to cause the SPICE server
to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
Update instructions:
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:
Ubuntu 13.10:
libspice-server1 0.12.4-0nocelt1ubuntu0.1
Ubuntu 13.04:
libspice-server1 0.12.2-0nocelt2expubuntu1.2
After a standard system update you need to restart applications using the
SPICE protocol, such as QEMU, to make all the necessary changes.
References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2027-1
CVE-2013-4282
Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/spice/0.12.4-0nocelt1ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/spice/0.12.2-0nocelt2expubuntu1.2
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