Multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities were found in the QUIC image decoding process of the SPICE remote display…
Summary
Vulnerability reported (CVE-2020-14355). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
Multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities were found in the QUIC image decoding process of the SPICE remote display system, before spice-0.14.2-1. Both the SPICE client (spice-gtk) and server are affected by these flaws. These flaws allow a malicious client or server to send specially crafted messages that, when processed by the QUIC image compression algorithm, result in a process crash or potential code execution.
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2020-14355 has been found.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: apply the vendor's official patched release.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "CVE-2020-14355" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2020-14355
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / no user interaction
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (unclassified) has been reported.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions.
Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to the patched release per vendor advisory.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Audit SBOM/dependencies to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
Audit SBOM/dependencies for affected components.資産台帳・SBOM・依存マニフェストで影響コンポーネントを特定する。
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2Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Alpine Linux ALPINE-CVE-2020-14355 spice Fixed in: 0.15.0-r0
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2020-14355 spice Fixed in: 0.12.4-0nocelt2ubuntu1.8+esm1
References
- advisory lists.opensuse.org
- advisory lists.opensuse.org
- advisory lists.debian.org
- advisory lists.debian.org
- advisory usn.ubuntu.com
- advisory usn.ubuntu.com
- advisory debian.org
- patch bugzilla.redhat.com
- patch openwall.com