CVE-2020-14355
spice: multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities in QUIC decoding code
Severity
ImportantRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · October 6, 2020
Updated · March 4, 2026
Description
Multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities were found in the QUIC image decoding process of the SPICE remote display system. Both the SPICE client (spice-gtk) and server are affected by these flaws. These flaws allow a malicious client or server to send specially crafted messages that, when processed by the QUIC image compression algorithm, result in a process crash or potential code execution.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 6.6CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
CWE-120 · Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')