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Alma Linux: CVE-2020-25653: Moderate: spice-vdagent security and bug fix update (ALSA-2021-1791)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2020-25653: Moderate: spice-vdagent security and bug fix update (ALSA-2021-1791)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:C)
Published
11/26/2020
Created
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
09/15/2022

Description

A race condition vulnerability was found in the way the spice-vdagentd daemon handled new client connections. This flaw may allow an unprivileged local guest user to become the active agent for spice-vdagentd, possibly resulting in a denial of service or information leakage from the host. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality as well as system availability. This flaw affects spice-vdagent versions 0.20 and prior.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-spice-vdagent

References

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