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spice-vdagent: memory DoS via arbitrary entries in active_xfers hash table

Published Nov 25, 2020

Description

A flaw was found in the way the spice-vdagentd daemon handled file transfers from the host system to the virtual machine. Any unprivileged local guest user with access to the UNIX domain socket path `/run/spice-vdagentd/spice-vdagent-sock` could use this flaw to perform a memory denial of service for spice-vdagentd or even other processes in the VM system. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. This flaw affects spice-vdagent versions 0.20 and previous versions.

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Remediation

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner redhat
Published Nov 25, 2020
Updated Aug 4, 2024
Reserved Sep 16, 2020
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Low
Public date Nov 3, 2020
ENISA EUVD
Assigner redhat
Published Nov 25, 2020
Updated Aug 4, 2024
Exploited since n/a
EUVD-2020-18314