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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-25652

A flaw was found in the spice-vdagentd daemon, where it did not properly handle client connections that can be established via the UNIX domain socket in `/run/spice-vdagentd/spice-vdagent-sock`. Any unprivileged local guest user could use this flaw to prevent legitimate agents from connecting to the spice-vdagentd daemon, resulting in a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. This flaw affects spice-vdagent versions 0.20 and prior.

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CVE-2020-25652

core-osv · Original source

Published 26 Nov 2020, 02:15 UTC

A flaw was found in the spice-vdagentd daemon, where it did not properly handle client connections that can be established via the UNIX domain socket in `/run/spice-vdagentd/spice-vdagent-sock`. Any unprivileged local guest user could use this flaw to prevent legitimate agents from connecting to the spice-vdagentd daemon, resulting in a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. This flaw affects spice-vdagent versions 0.20 and prior.

osv:CVE-2020-25652
Complete source record
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  "method": "structured",
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    "summary": "A flaw was found in the spice-vdagentd daemon, where it did not properly handle client connections that can be established via the UNIX domain socket in `/run/spice-vdagentd/spice-vdagent-sock`. Any unprivileged local guest user could use this flaw to prevent legitimate agents from connecting to the spice-vdagentd daemon, resulting in a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. This flaw affects spice-vdagent versions 0.20 and prior.",
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        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OIWJ2EIQXWEA2VDBODEATHAT37X4CREP/",
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/01/msg00012.html",
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
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