CVE-2017-12194

spice-gtk: Integer overflows causing buffer overflows in spice-client

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.5

CVSS 3.0

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Published · March 14, 2018

Updated · November 22, 2025

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.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 5.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

CWE-121 · Stack-based Buffer Overflow