# CVE-2020-25650: A flaw was found in the way the spice-vdagentd daemon handled file transfers from the host system to the virtual machine.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2020-11-25 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a spice-vdagent: version range not reported

## Description

A flaw was found in the way the spice-vdagentd daemon handled file transfers from the host system to the virtual machine. Any unprivileged local guest user with access to the UNIX domain socket path `/run/spice-vdagentd/spice-vdagent-sock` could use this flaw to perform a memory denial of service for spice-vdagentd or even other processes in the VM system. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. This flaw affects spice-vdagent versions 0.20 and previous versions.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a spice-vdagent, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1886345
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/11/04/1
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/01/msg00012.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OIWJ2EIQXWEA2VDBODEATHAT37X4CREP/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GQT56LATVTB2DJOVVJOKQVMVUXYCT2VB/

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