CVE-2016-0749: Debian Linux

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 8.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• Opensuse Leap: version 42.1 only
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 13.2 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node Eus: version 7.2 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: version 7.2 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: version 7.2 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Spice Project Spice: affected versions not specified

Published 2016-06-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.