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CVE-2016-0749

spice: heap-based memory corruption within smartcard handling

Published Modified CWE 119
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat6.8AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Red Hat (high), Oracle (high), Ubuntu (medium).

Description

The smartcard interaction in SPICE allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (QEMU-KVM process crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to connecting to a guest VM, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
debian 11spice0.12.6-4.1
debian 12spice0.12.6-4.1
debian 13spice0.12.6-4.1
debian 14spice0.12.6-4.1
debian 8spice0.12.5-1+deb8u3
echospice0.12.6-4.1
Oracle Linux 6spice-server, spice-server-devel0.12.4-13.el6.1
Oracle Linux 7spice-server, spice-server-devel0.12.4-15.el7_2.1
ubuntu 14.04spice0.12.4-0nocelt2ubuntu1.3
ubuntu 14.04-ESMspice0.12.4-0nocelt2ubuntu1.3
ubuntu 15.10spice0.12.5-1.1ubuntu2.1
ubuntu 16.04spice0.12.6-4ubuntu0.1
Show all 17 entries from 15 sources
SourcePackageFixed in
debian 11spice0.12.6-4.1
debian 12spice0.12.6-4.1
debian 13spice0.12.6-4.1
debian 14spice0.12.6-4.1
debian 8spice0.12.5-1+deb8u3
echospice0.12.6-4.1
Oracle Linux 6spice-server0.12.4-13.el6.1
Oracle Linux 6spice-server-devel0.12.4-13.el6.1
Oracle Linux 7spice-server0.12.4-15.el7_2.1
Oracle Linux 7spice-server-devel0.12.4-15.el7_2.1
ubuntu 14.04spice0.12.4-0nocelt2ubuntu1.3
ubuntu 14.04-ESMspice0.12.4-0nocelt2ubuntu1.3
ubuntu 15.10spice0.12.5-1.1ubuntu2.1
ubuntu 16.04spice0.12.6-4ubuntu0.1
ubuntu 16.04-ESMspice0.12.6-4ubuntu0.1
ubuntu 16.10spice0.12.6-4ubuntu1
ubuntu 17.04spice0.12.6-4ubuntu1

References

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