CVE-2018-10873

Publication date 17 August 2018

Last updated 18 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.3 · High

Score breakdown

Description

A vulnerability was discovered in SPICE before version 0.14.1 where the generated code used for demarshalling messages lacked sufficient bounds checks. A malicious client or server, after authentication, could send specially crafted messages to its peer which would result in a crash or, potentially, other impacts.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
spice 25.10 questing
Fixed 0.14.0-1ubuntu4
25.04 plucky
Fixed 0.14.0-1ubuntu4
24.10 oracular
Fixed 0.14.0-1ubuntu4
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 0.14.0-1ubuntu4
23.10 mantic
Fixed 0.14.0-1ubuntu4
23.04 lunar
Fixed 0.14.0-1ubuntu4
22.10 kinetic
Fixed 0.14.0-1ubuntu4
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 0.14.0-1ubuntu4
21.10 impish
Fixed 0.14.0-1ubuntu4
21.04 hirsute
Fixed 0.14.0-1ubuntu4
20.10 groovy
Fixed 0.14.0-1ubuntu4
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 0.14.0-1ubuntu4
19.10 eoan
Fixed 0.14.0-1ubuntu4
19.04 disco
Fixed 0.14.0-1ubuntu4
18.10 cosmic
Fixed 0.14.0-1ubuntu4
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 0.14.0-1ubuntu2.2
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 0.12.4-0nocelt2ubuntu1.7
spice-gtk 25.10 questing
Not affected
25.04 plucky
Not affected
24.10 oracular
Not affected
24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
23.10 mantic
Not affected
23.04 lunar
Not affected
22.10 kinetic
Not affected
22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
21.10 impish
Not affected
21.04 hirsute
Not affected
20.10 groovy
Not affected
20.04 LTS focal
Not affected
19.10 eoan
Not affected
19.04 disco
Not affected
18.10 cosmic
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Vulnerable
16.04 LTS xenial
Vulnerable
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
spice-protocol 25.10 questing
Not affected
25.04 plucky
Not affected
24.10 oracular
Not affected
24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
23.10 mantic
Not affected
23.04 lunar
Not affected
22.10 kinetic
Not affected
22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
21.10 impish
Not affected
21.04 hirsute
Not affected
20.10 groovy
Not affected
20.04 LTS focal
Not affected
19.10 eoan
Not affected
19.04 disco
Not affected
18.10 cosmic
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 0.12.10-1ubuntu0.2
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

Notes

leosilva

for xenial this bug is affected in spice-protocol only.

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 8.3 · High
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact Low
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

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