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(CVE-2017-12194)\n\nA vulnerability was discovered in SPICE before version 0.14.1 where the\ngenerated code used for demarshalling messages lacked sufficient bounds\nchecks. A malicious client or server, after authentication, could send\nspecially crafted messages to its peer which would result in a crash or,\npotentially, other impacts. (CVE-2018-10873)\n\nMultiple integer overflow and buffer overflow issues were discovered in\nspice-client's handling of LZ compressed frames. A malicious server could\ncause the client to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code.\n(CVE-2018-10893)\n","status":"published","published":"2019-02-22T01:08:50Z","modified":"2026-04-16T06:24:27.47352203Z","updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:49:40.793816Z"},{"id":"SUSE-SU-2018:0877-1","title":"Security update for spice-gtk","description":"This update for spice-gtk fixes the following issues:\n\n- CVE-2017-12194: A flaw was found in the way spice-client processed certain messages sent from the server. 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