High
Security advisory
A vulnerability was discovered in SPICE before version 0.14.1 where the generated code used for demarshalling messages lacked sufficient bounds checks. A malicious client or server, after authentication, could send specially crafted messages to its peer which would result in a crash or, potentially, other impacts.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-10873
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 09:23 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A vulnerability was discovered in SPICE before version 0.14.1 where the generated code used for demarshalling messages lacked sufficient bounds checks. A malicious client or server, after authentication, could send specially crafted messages to its peer which would result in a crash or, potentially, other impacts.
osv:CVE-2018-10873
Complete source record
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