Vulnerability in spice-vdagent (CVE-2026-57965)
Summary
Vulnerability in spice-vdagent (CVE-2026-57965). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
A flaw was found in spice-vdagent. A malicious or compromised SPICE host can trigger an integer overflow by sending a specially crafted message. This vulnerability can lead to a heap buffer overflow, causing the spice-vdagent daemon to crash and resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) for the virtual machine. This issue requires the SPICE host to be untrusted or compromised for exploitation.
Source: GitHub Security Advisories (Global) NVD GitHub Advisory
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-57965 has been found in spice-vdagent.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. CVSS score: 5.1/10.
What to do: apply the vendor's official patched release.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "spice-vdagent CVE-2026-57965" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2026-57965 (spice-vdagent) — CWE-190 / CVSS v3 5.1
Attack vector: local / 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 (CWE-190) exists in spice-vdagent.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of spice-vdagent.
Severity: Medium (CVSS 5.1/10). 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. Run grep -r 'spice-vdagent' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) 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
grep -r 'spice-vdagent' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
spice-vdagentを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
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
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2026-57965 spice-vdagent Fixed in: 0.22.1-3+deb12u1
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2026-57965 spice-vdagent
References
- patch secalert@redhat.com
- patch secalert@redhat.com
- web nvd.nist.gov
- web github.com