CVE-2018-10893
Multiple integer overflow and buffer overflow issues were discovered in spice-client's handling of LZ compressed frames.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.36%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
Multiple integer overflow and buffer overflow issues were discovered in spice-client's handling of LZ compressed frames. A malicious server could cause the client to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code.
- CVSS 3.0
- 8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 2.36% probability · 84th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-122, CWE-190
- Affected
- spice project/spice
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
EPSS 2.4% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2229
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0471
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10893Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/spice-devel/2018-July/044489.htmlMailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2229
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0471
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10893Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/spice-devel/2018-July/044489.htmlMailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.