CVE-2020-25652

spice-vdagent: possibility to exhaust file descriptors in vdagentd

Published Nov 26, 2020 CVSS 3.1 · 5.5 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
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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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2524-1 spice-vdagent security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-18316 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4617-1 SPICE vdagent vulnerabilities
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
redhat
Published
Updated
Aug 4, 2024, 3:40 PM
Reserved
Sep 16, 2020, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Nov 26, 2020, 2:15 AM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 3:07 AM
Severity
Low
Public date
Nov 3, 2020, 12:00 AM