CVE-2018-10873: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 3.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A vulnerability was discovered in SPICE before version 0.14.1 where the generated code used for demarshalling messages lacked sufficient bounds checks. A malicious client or server, after authentication, could send specially crafted messages to its peer which would result in a crash or, potentially, other impacts.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only; version 18.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: version 7.6 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: version 7.5 only; version 7.6 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Tus: version 7.6 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Virtualization: version 4.0 only
• Red Hat Virtualization Host: version 4.0 only
• Spice Project Spice: before 0.14.1 (fixed in 0.14.1)

Published 2018-08-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.