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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2016-9578

A vulnerability was discovered in SPICE before 0.13.90 in the server's protocol handling. An attacker able to connect to the SPICE server could send crafted messages which would cause the process to crash.

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CVE-2016-9578

core-osv · Original source

Published 27 Jul 2018, 21:29 UTC

A vulnerability was discovered in SPICE before 0.13.90 in the server's protocol handling. An attacker able to connect to the SPICE server could send crafted messages which would cause the process to crash.

osv:CVE-2016-9578
Complete source record
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
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}