ubuntu · CVE-2016-0749

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Priority: medium Published: 2016-06-09 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 21:50:54 UTC

View at Official ubuntu advisory, NVD, CVE.org · CVE detail

Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-0749 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (spice), 7 status rows across 7 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): released 5, ignored 1, needs-triage 1.

Description:

The smartcard interaction in SPICE allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (QEMU-KVM process crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to connecting to a guest VM, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

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