USN-3870-1: Spice vulnerability spice vulnerability A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 18.10 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Summary Spice could be made to crash or run programs if it received specially crafted network traffic. Software Description spice – SPICE protocol client and server library Details Christophe Fergeau discovered that Spice incorrectly handled memory. A remote attacker could use this to cause Spice to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 18.10 libspice-server1 – 0.14.0-1ubuntu4.2 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS libspice-server1 – 0.14.0-1ubuntu2.4 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS libspice-server1 – 0.12.6-4ubuntu0.4 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS libspice-server1 – 0.12.4-0nocelt2ubuntu1.8 To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades. After a standard system update you need [ more… ]