Vulnerabilities > CVE-2016-2150 - Improper Access Control vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 7.1 - HIGH
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
LOW
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
NONE

Summary

SPICE allows local guest OS users to read from or write to arbitrary host memory locations via crafted primary surface parameters, a similar issue to CVE-2015-5261.

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Embedding Scripts within Scripts
    An attack of this type exploits a programs' vulnerabilities that are brought on by allowing remote hosts to execute scripts. The attacker leverages this capability to execute scripts to execute his/her own script by embedding it within other scripts that the target software is likely to execute. The attacker must have the ability to inject script into script that is likely to be executed. If this is done, then the attacker can potentially launch a variety of probes and attacks against the web server's local environment, in many cases the so-called DMZ, back end resources the web server can communicate with, and other hosts. With the proliferation of intermediaries, such as Web App Firewalls, network devices, and even printers having JVMs and Web servers, there are many locales where an attacker can inject malicious scripts. Since this attack pattern defines scripts within scripts, there are likely privileges to execute said attack on the host. Of course, these attacks are not solely limited to the server side, client side scripts like Ajax and client side JavaScript can contain malicious scripts as well. In general all that is required is for there to be sufficient privileges to execute a script, but not protected against writing.
  • Signature Spoofing by Key Theft
    An attacker obtains an authoritative or reputable signer's private signature key by theft and then uses this key to forge signatures from the original signer to mislead a victim into performing actions that benefit the attacker.

Nessus

  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idSUSE_SU-2016-1559-1.NASL
    descriptionspice was updated to fix four security issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2016-2150: Guest escape using crafted primary surface parameters (bsc#982386). - CVE-2016-0749: Heap-based buffer overflow in smartcard interaction (bsc#982385). - CVE-2015-5260: Insufficient validation of surface_id parameter could have caused a crash (bsc#944787). - CVE-2015-5261: Host memory access from guest using crafted images (bsc#948976). Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-01
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    plugin id91659
    published2016-06-17
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/91659
    titleSUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : spice (SUSE-SU-2016:1559-1)
  • NASL familyCentOS Local Security Checks
    NASL idCENTOS_RHSA-2016-1204.NASL
    descriptionAn update for spice-server is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section. The Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments (SPICE) is a remote display protocol for virtual environments. SPICE users can access a virtualized desktop or server from the local system or any system with network access to the server. SPICE is used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux for viewing virtualized guests running on the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor or on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisors. Security Fix(es) : * A memory allocation flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in spice
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id91503
    published2016-06-08
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/91503
    titleCentOS 6 : spice-server (CESA-2016:1204)
  • NASL familyDebian Local Security Checks
    NASL idDEBIAN_DLA-531.NASL
    descriptionA vulnerability has been found in the Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments, SPICE. Frediano Ziglio from Red Hat discovered that SPICE allowed local guest OS users to read from or write to arbitrary host memory locations via crafted primary surface parameters. For Debian 7
    last seen2020-03-17
    modified2016-06-28
    plugin id91859
    published2016-06-28
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/91859
    titleDebian DLA-531-1 : spice security update
  • NASL familyRed Hat Local Security Checks
    NASL idREDHAT-RHSA-2016-1205.NASL
    descriptionAn update for spice is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section. The Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments (SPICE) is a remote display system built for virtual environments which allows the user to view a computing
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id91496
    published2016-06-07
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/91496
    titleRHEL 7 : spice (RHSA-2016:1205)
  • NASL familyScientific Linux Local Security Checks
    NASL idSL_20160606_SPICE_SERVER_ON_SL6_X.NASL
    descriptionSecurity Fix(es) : - A memory allocation flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in spice
    last seen2020-03-18
    modified2016-06-17
    plugin id91647
    published2016-06-17
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/91647
    titleScientific Linux Security Update : spice-server on SL6.x x86_64 (20160606)
  • NASL familyGentoo Local Security Checks
    NASL idGENTOO_GLSA-201606-05.NASL
    descriptionThe remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201606-05 (spice: Multiple vulnerabilities) Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in spice, please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact : A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code. Additionally, a local attacker could cause a Denial of Service. Workaround : There is no known workaround at this time.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id91638
    published2016-06-17
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/91638
    titleGLSA-201606-05 : spice: Multiple vulnerabilities
  • NASL familyScientific Linux Local Security Checks
    NASL idSL_20160606_SPICE_ON_SL7_X.NASL
    descriptionSecurity Fix(es) : - A memory allocation flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in spice
    last seen2020-03-18
    modified2016-06-08
    plugin id91514
    published2016-06-08
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/91514
    titleScientific Linux Security Update : spice on SL7.x x86_64 (20160606)
  • NASL familyRed Hat Local Security Checks
    NASL idREDHAT-RHSA-2016-1204.NASL
    descriptionAn update for spice-server is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section. The Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments (SPICE) is a remote display protocol for virtual environments. SPICE users can access a virtualized desktop or server from the local system or any system with network access to the server. SPICE is used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux for viewing virtualized guests running on the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor or on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisors. Security Fix(es) : * A memory allocation flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in spice
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id91495
    published2016-06-07
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/91495
    titleRHEL 6 : spice-server (RHSA-2016:1204)
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idOPENSUSE-2016-824.NASL
    descriptionspice was updated to fix two security issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2016-2150: SPICE allowed local guest OS users to read from or write to arbitrary host memory locations via crafted primary surface parameters, a similar issue to CVE-2015-5261 (boo#982385). - CVE-2016-0749: The smartcard interaction in SPICE allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (QEMU-KVM process crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to connecting to a guest VM, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow (boo#982385).
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2016-07-05
    plugin id91944
    published2016-07-05
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/91944
    titleopenSUSE Security Update : spice (openSUSE-2016-824)
  • NASL familyDebian Local Security Checks
    NASL idDEBIAN_DSA-3596.NASL
    descriptionSeveral vulnerabilities were discovered in spice, a SPICE protocol client and server library. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2016-0749 Jing Zhao of Red Hat discovered a memory allocation flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow in spice
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id91490
    published2016-06-07
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/91490
    titleDebian DSA-3596-1 : spice - security update
  • NASL familyOracle Linux Local Security Checks
    NASL idORACLELINUX_ELSA-2016-1205.NASL
    descriptionFrom Red Hat Security Advisory 2016:1205 : An update for spice is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section. The Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments (SPICE) is a remote display system built for virtual environments which allows the user to view a computing
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id91494
    published2016-06-07
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/91494
    titleOracle Linux 7 : spice (ELSA-2016-1205)
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2016-6B9C658707.NASL
    descriptionUpdate to upstream 0.12.8 release Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2016-07-20
    plugin id92443
    published2016-07-20
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/92443
    titleFedora 24 : spice (2016-6b9c658707)
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idOPENSUSE-2016-823.NASL
    descriptionspice was updated to fix two security issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2016-2150: SPICE allowed local guest OS users to read from or write to arbitrary host memory locations via crafted primary surface parameters, a similar issue to CVE-2015-5261 (boo#982385). - CVE-2016-0749: The smartcard interaction in SPICE allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (QEMU-KVM process crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to connecting to a guest VM, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow (boo#982385).
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2016-07-05
    plugin id91943
    published2016-07-05
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/91943
    titleopenSUSE Security Update : spice (openSUSE-2016-823)
  • NASL familyOracle Linux Local Security Checks
    NASL idORACLELINUX_ELSA-2016-1204.NASL
    descriptionFrom Red Hat Security Advisory 2016:1204 : An update for spice-server is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section. The Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments (SPICE) is a remote display protocol for virtual environments. SPICE users can access a virtualized desktop or server from the local system or any system with network access to the server. SPICE is used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux for viewing virtualized guests running on the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor or on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisors. Security Fix(es) : * A memory allocation flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in spice
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id91493
    published2016-06-07
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/91493
    titleOracle Linux 6 : spice-server (ELSA-2016-1204)
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2016-A7322C9FD1.NASL
    descriptionUpdate to new 0.12.8 upstream release Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2016-08-19
    plugin id93032
    published2016-08-19
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/93032
    titleFedora 23 : spice (2016-a7322c9fd1)
  • NASL familyUbuntu Local Security Checks
    NASL idUBUNTU_USN-3014-1.NASL
    descriptionJing Zhao discovered that the Spice smartcard support incorrectly handled memory. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Spice to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 15.10 and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-0749) Frediano Ziglio discovered that Spice incorrectly handled certain primary surface parameters. A malicious guest operating system could potentially exploit this issue to escape virtualization. (CVE-2016-2150). Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-01
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    plugin id91758
    published2016-06-22
    reporterUbuntu Security Notice (C) 2016-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/91758
    titleUbuntu 14.04 LTS / 15.10 / 16.04 LTS : spice vulnerabilities (USN-3014-1)
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idSUSE_SU-2016-1561-1.NASL
    descriptionspice was updated to fix two security issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2016-2150: Guest escape using crafted primary surface parameters (bsc#982386). - CVE-2016-0749: Heap-based buffer overflow in smartcard interaction (bsc#982385). Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-01
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    plugin id91661
    published2016-06-17
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/91661
    titleSUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : spice (SUSE-SU-2016:1561-1)
  • NASL familyCentOS Local Security Checks
    NASL idCENTOS_RHSA-2016-1205.NASL
    descriptionAn update for spice is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section. The Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments (SPICE) is a remote display system built for virtual environments which allows the user to view a computing
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    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/91504
    titleCentOS 7 : spice (CESA-2016:1205)

Redhat

advisories
  • bugzilla
    id1313496
    titleCVE-2016-2150 spice: Host memory access from guest with invalid primary surface parameters
    oval
    OR
    • commentRed Hat Enterprise Linux must be installed
      ovaloval:com.redhat.rhba:tst:20070304026
    • AND
      • commentRed Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is installed
        ovaloval:com.redhat.rhba:tst:20111656003
      • OR
        • AND
          • commentspice-server-devel is earlier than 0:0.12.4-13.el6.1
            ovaloval:com.redhat.rhsa:tst:20161204001
          • commentspice-server-devel is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
            ovaloval:com.redhat.rhsa:tst:20131192004
        • AND
          • commentspice-server is earlier than 0:0.12.4-13.el6.1
            ovaloval:com.redhat.rhsa:tst:20161204003
          • commentspice-server is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
            ovaloval:com.redhat.rhsa:tst:20131192002
    rhsa
    idRHSA-2016:1204
    released2016-06-06
    severityImportant
    titleRHSA-2016:1204: spice-server security update (Important)
  • bugzilla
    id1313496
    titleCVE-2016-2150 spice: Host memory access from guest with invalid primary surface parameters
    oval
    OR
    • commentRed Hat Enterprise Linux must be installed
      ovaloval:com.redhat.rhba:tst:20070304026
    • AND
      • commentRed Hat Enterprise Linux 7 is installed
        ovaloval:com.redhat.rhba:tst:20150364027
      • OR
        • AND
          • commentspice-server-devel is earlier than 0:0.12.4-15.el7_2.1
            ovaloval:com.redhat.rhsa:tst:20161205001
          • commentspice-server-devel is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
            ovaloval:com.redhat.rhsa:tst:20131192004
        • AND
          • commentspice-server is earlier than 0:0.12.4-15.el7_2.1
            ovaloval:com.redhat.rhsa:tst:20161205003
          • commentspice-server is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
            ovaloval:com.redhat.rhsa:tst:20131192002
    rhsa
    idRHSA-2016:1205
    released2016-06-06
    severityImportant
    titleRHSA-2016:1205: spice security update (Important)
rpms
  • spice-server-0:0.12.4-13.el6.1
  • spice-server-debuginfo-0:0.12.4-13.el6.1
  • spice-server-devel-0:0.12.4-13.el6.1
  • spice-debuginfo-0:0.12.4-15.el7_2.1
  • spice-server-0:0.12.4-15.el7_2.1
  • spice-server-devel-0:0.12.4-15.el7_2.1