CVE-2016-2150

Publication date 9 June 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

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.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
spice	17.04 zesty	Fixed 0.12.6-4ubuntu1
	16.10 yakkety	Fixed 0.12.6-4ubuntu1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 0.12.6-4ubuntu0.1
	15.10 wily	Fixed 0.12.5-1.1ubuntu2.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 0.12.4-0nocelt2ubuntu1.3
	12.04 LTS precise	Ignored end of life

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.1 · High
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3014-1
Spice vulnerabilities
21 June 2016

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2150