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spice-vdagent: possibility to exhaust file descriptors in vdagentd

Published Nov 26, 2020

Description

A flaw was found in the spice-vdagentd daemon, where it did not properly handle client connections that can be established via the UNIX domain socket in `/run/spice-vdagentd/spice-vdagent-sock`. Any unprivileged local guest user could use this flaw to prevent legitimate agents from connecting to the spice-vdagentd daemon, resulting in a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. This flaw affects spice-vdagent versions 0.20 and prior.

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Remediation

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner redhat
Published Nov 26, 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