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Fencer Vulns
high 8.8

CVE-2017-7506 json

spice versions though 0.13 are vulnerable to out-of-bounds memory access when processing specially crafted messages from authenticated atta…

published 2017-07-18 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-16523

cvss
8.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.2%
EPSS 4.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 91%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

spice versions though 0.13 are vulnerable to out-of-bounds memory access when processing specially crafted messages from authenticated attacker to the spice server resulting into crash and/or server memory leak.

Patch / fix

  • spice Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.12.8-2.2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-7506

  • spice Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 0.12.4-0nocelt2ubuntu1.5
  • spice Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 0.12.6-4ubuntu0.3

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7506

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  • spice-server RHEL 6 0.12.4-16.el6_10.2
  • spice RHEL 7 0.12.8-2.el7.1
  • spice-server RHEL 7 0.12.8-2.el7.1
  • redhat-virtualization-host RHEL 7 4.1-20170816.2.el7_4
  • imgbased RHEL 7 0.9.47-0.1.el7ev
  • ovirt-node-ng RHEL 7 4.1.5-0.20170810.0.el7
  • ovirt-node-ng-nodectl RHEL 7 4.1.5-0.20170810.0.el7
  • redhat-release-virtualization-host RHEL 7 4.1-5.0.el7

red hat advisories RHSA-2018:3522RHSA-2017:2471RHBA-2017:2529

  • spice SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES 12 SP3, SLED 12 SP3 +1 more 0.12.8-3.9
  • spice SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES 12 SP2, SLED 12 SP2 +1 more 0.12.7-10.3.1
  • spice SLES for SAP 12 SP1, SLES 12 SP1-LTSS, OpenStack Cloud 6 0.12.5-10.1
  • spice SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4, SLE Software Development Kit 11 SP4 0.12.4-11.1
  • spice SLES for SAP 12, SLES 12-LTSS 0.12.4-8.15.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2017:2552-1SUSE-SU-2017:1836-1SUSE-SU-2017:1832-1SUSE-SU-2017:1839-1SUSE-SU-2017:1837-1

  • spice Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +15 more 0.12.8-r4
  • spice Alpine 3.3 0.12.6-r2
  • spice Alpine 3.4 0.12.7-r1
  • spice Alpine 3.5 0.12.8-r3
  • spice Alpine 3.6 0.13.3-r2

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2017-7506

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  • spice Arch Linux 0.12.8+8+ga957a90b-1

arch linux advisories AVG-349

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-7506 updated cvss 9.1

spice: Possible buffer overflow via invalid monitor configurations

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 rhev-hypervisor Red Hat Virtualization 4 distribution
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) spice 0.12.8-2.el7.1, spice-server 0.12.8-2.el7.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) spice-debuginfo 0.12.8-2.el7.1, spice-server-devel 0.12.8-2.el7.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) spice 0.12.8-2.el7.1, spice-server 0.12.8-2.el7.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:2471
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) spice-server 0.12.4-16.el6_10.2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6) spice-server-devel 0.12.4-16.el6_10.2, spice-server-debuginfo 0.12.4-16.el6_10.2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6) spice-server 0.12.4-16.el6_10.2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6) spice-server-devel 0.12.4-16.el6_10.2, spice-server-debuginfo 0.12.4-16.el6_10.2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) spice-server 0.12.4-16.el6_10.2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:3522
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) spice 0.12.8-2.el7.1, spice-server 0.12.8-2.el7.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:2471
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6) spice-server-devel 0.12.4-16.el6_10.2, spice-server-debuginfo 0.12.4-16.el6_10.2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:3522
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) spice-debuginfo 0.12.8-2.el7.1, spice-server-devel 0.12.8-2.el7.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:2471
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) spice-server 0.12.4-16.el6_10.2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:3522
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) spice 0.12.8-2.el7.1, spice-server 0.12.8-2.el7.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:2471
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  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6) spice-server-devel 0.12.4-16.el6_10.2, spice-server-debuginfo 0.12.4-16.el6_10.2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:3522
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) spice-debuginfo 0.12.8-2.el7.1, spice-server-devel 0.12.8-2.el7.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:2471
  • Red Hat Virtualization 4 Hypervisor for RHEL 7 redhat-virtualization-host 4.1-20170816.2.el7_4, redhat-virtualization-host-image-update 4.1-20170816.2.el7_4 Red Hat RHEL 7-based RHEV-H for RHEV 4 (build requirements) imgbased 0.9.47-0.1.el7ev, ovirt-node-ng 4.1.5-0.20170810.0.el7, ovirt-node-ng-nodectl 4.1.5-0.20170810.0.el7, redhat-release-virtualization-host 4.1-5.0.el7, redhat-virtualization-host-image-update-placeholder 4.1-5.0.el7
    fixed: vendor fix RHBA-2017:2529

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Exploit prediction

4.20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • The SPICE Project spice

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.