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spice-vdagent — security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2020-25653

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.

Products
spice-vdagent
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
0.20.0-2
CVEs
CVE-2020-25653
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
1 Nov 2026, 13:08 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

DEBIAN-CVE-2020-25653

core-osv · Original source

Published 26 Nov 2020, 02:15 UTC

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.

osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2020-25653

spice-vdagent

Fixed versions: 0.20.0-2

spice-vdagent

Fixed versions: 0.20.0-2

spice-vdagent

Fixed versions: 0.20.0-2

Complete source record
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