The smartcard interaction in SPICE allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (QEMU-KVM process crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to connecting to a guest VM, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

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Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3596-1 spice security update
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3014-1 Spice vulnerabilities
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T22:30:03.963Z

Reserved: 2015-12-16T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-0749

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2016-06-09T16:59:00.127

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2016-0749

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2016-06-06T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-0749 - Bugzilla

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