CVE-2016-0749 - CVE House
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Status published Critical CVE-2016-0749

The smartcard interaction in SPICE allows remote attackers to cause...

Vulnerability Description

The smartcard interaction in SPICE allows 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

leap, opensuse, debian linux, enterprise linux, enterprise linux desktop, enterprise linux server, enterprise linux workstation, enterprise linux hpc node eus, enterprise linux server aus, enterprise linux server eus, spice
Vulnerable Versions:
42.1, 13.2, 8.0, 6.0, 7.0, 7.2

Timeline

Official Publish: June 9th, 2016
Last Modified: August 5th, 2024
Added to House: July 20th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.