Vulnerabilities / CVE-2017-12194

critical

CVE-2017-12194

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

Published Modified CWE 121, 20
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 Hat5.5CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

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

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. spice-gtk versions through 0.34 are believed to be vulnerable.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
debian 11spice-gtk0.35-1
debian 12spice-gtk0.35-1
debian 13spice-gtk0.35-1
debian 14spice-gtk0.35-1
debian 8spice-gtkno fix listed
debian 9spice-gtkno fix listed
echospice-gtk0.35-1
Red Hatspice-glib, spice-glib-devel, spice-gtk and 6 moreno fix listed
ubuntu 14.04spice0.12.4-0nocelt2ubuntu1.6
ubuntu 14.04-ESMspice0.12.4-0nocelt2ubuntu1.6
ubuntu 16.04spice-protocol0.12.10-1ubuntu0.1
ubuntu 16.04-ESMspice-protocol0.12.10-1ubuntu0.1
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SourcePackageFixed in
debian 11spice-gtk0.35-1
debian 12spice-gtk0.35-1
debian 13spice-gtk0.35-1
debian 14spice-gtk0.35-1
debian 8spice-gtkno fix listed
debian 9spice-gtkno fix listed
echospice-gtk0.35-1
Red Hatspice-glibno fix listed
Red Hatspice-glib-develno fix listed
Red Hatspice-gtkno fix listed
Red Hatspice-gtk-develno fix listed
Red Hatspice-gtk-pythonno fix listed
Red Hatspice-gtk-toolsno fix listed
Red Hatspice-gtk3no fix listed
Red Hatspice-gtk3-develno fix listed
Red Hatspice-gtk3-valano fix listed
ubuntu 14.04spice0.12.4-0nocelt2ubuntu1.6
ubuntu 14.04-ESMspice0.12.4-0nocelt2ubuntu1.6
ubuntu 16.04spice-protocol0.12.10-1ubuntu0.1
ubuntu 16.04-ESMspice-protocol0.12.10-1ubuntu0.1
ubuntu 17.10spice0.12.8-2.2ubuntu0.1
ubuntu 18.04spice0.14.0-1ubuntu2.1
ubuntu 18.04-ESMspice0.14.0-1ubuntu2.1
ubuntu 18.04-ESMspice-gtkno fix listed
ubuntu 18.10spice0.14.0-1ubuntu3
ubuntu 19.04spice0.14.0-1ubuntu3
ubuntu 19.10spice0.14.0-1ubuntu3
ubuntu 20.04spice0.14.0-1ubuntu3
ubuntu 20.04-ESMspice0.14.0-1ubuntu3
ubuntu 20.10spice0.14.0-1ubuntu3
ubuntu 21.04spice0.14.0-1ubuntu3
ubuntu 21.10spice0.14.0-1ubuntu3
ubuntu 22.04spice0.14.0-1ubuntu3
ubuntu 22.10spice0.14.0-1ubuntu3
ubuntu 23.04spice0.14.0-1ubuntu3
ubuntu 23.10spice0.14.0-1ubuntu3
ubuntu 24.04spice0.14.0-1ubuntu3
ubuntu 24.10spice0.14.0-1ubuntu3
ubuntu 25.04spice0.14.0-1ubuntu3
ubuntu 25.10spice0.14.0-1ubuntu3
ubuntu 26.04spice0.14.0-1ubuntu3
ubuntu 26.10spice0.14.0-1ubuntu3

References

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