CVE-2020-25650Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Spice-vdagent

Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.2%
top 64.01%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedNov 25
Latest updateMay 24

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages8 packages

debiandebian/spice-vdagent< spice-vdagent 0.20.0-2 (bookworm)
Debianspice-space/spice-vdagent< 0.20.0-2+3
Ubuntuspice-space/spice-vdagent< 0.17.0-1ubuntu2.2+1
CVEListV5spice-space/spice-vdagentspice-vdagent versions prior and including 0.20

Also affects: Debian Linux 9.0, Fedora 32, 33

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-f637-jpfq-3wv2: A flaw was found in the way the spice-vdagentd daemon handled file transfers from the host system to the virtual machine2022-05-24
OSV
CVE-2020-25650: A flaw was found in the way the spice-vdagentd daemon handled file transfers from the host system to the virtual machine2020-11-25
OSV
spice-vdagent vulnerabilities2020-11-04

📋Vendor Advisories

4
Microsoft
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 `2020-11-10
Ubuntu
SPICE vdagent vulnerabilities2020-11-04
Red Hat
spice-vdagent: memory DoS via arbitrary entries in active_xfers hash table2020-11-03
Debian
CVE-2020-25650: spice-vdagent - A flaw was found in the way the spice-vdagentd daemon handled file transfers fro...2020

💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2020-25650 spice-vdagent: memory DoS via arbitrary entries in `active_xfers` hash table [fedora-all]2020-11-04
Bugzilla
CVE-2020-25650 spice-vdagent: memory DoS via arbitrary entries in active_xfers hash table2020-10-08