CVE-2012-4425: Freedesktop Spice-Gtk

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

libgio, when used in setuid or other privileged programs in spice-gtk and possibly other products, allows local users to gain privileges and execute arbitrary code via the DBUS_SYSTEM_BUS_ADDRESS environment variable. NOTE: it could be argued that this is a vulnerability in the applications that do not cleanse environment variables, not in libgio itself.

Affected products

• Freedesktop Spice-Gtk: affected versions not specified
• Gtk Libgio: affected versions not specified

Published 2012-09-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.