CVE-2017-12194

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-03-14 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-121

Description

A flaw was found in the way spice-client processed certain messages sent from the server. An attacker, having control of malicious spice-server, could use this flaw to crash the client or execute arbitrary code with permissions of the user running the client. spice-gtk versions through 0.34 are believed to be vulnerable.

Affected products

freedesktop.org spice-gtk: through 0.34

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103413
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1501200
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-20
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3659-1/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103413
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1501200
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-20
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3659-1/

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