CVE-2021-20201

Summary

CVECVE-2021-20201
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-05-28 11:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-10-21 20:02:00 UTC
DescriptionA flaw was found in spice in versions before 0.14.92. A DoS tool might make it easier for remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) by performing many renegotiations within a single connection.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 6.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 8.0 All All All
Application Spice Project Spice All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
TLS Renegotiation and Denial of Service Attacks | Qualys Security Blog MISC blog.qualys.com
1921846 – (CVE-2021-20201) CVE-2021-20201 spice: Client initiated renegotiation denial of service MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
Spice Server: Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202208-10) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 159228 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for spice (ELSA-2021-1924)
  • 180135 Debian Security Update for spice (CVE-2021-20201)
  • 239288 Red Hat Update for spice (RHSA-2021:1924)
  • 500650 Alpine Linux Security Update for spice
  • 504417 Alpine Linux Security Update for spice
  • 670591 EulerOS Security Update for spice (EulerOS-SA-2021-2349)
  • 670693 EulerOS Security Update for spice (EulerOS-SA-2021-2451)
  • 671046 EulerOS Security Update for spice (EulerOS-SA-2021-2616)
  • 710583 Gentoo Linux Spice Server Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202208-10)
  • 750133 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for spice (SUSE-SU-2021:1901-1)
  • 750134 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for spice (SUSE-SU-2021:1906-1)
  • 750144 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for spice (SUSE-SU-2021:1927-1)
  • 750157 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for spice (SUSE-SU-2021:1956-1)
  • 750646 OpenSUSE Security Update for spice (openSUSE-SU-2021:0874-1)
  • 753102 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for spice (SUSE-SU-2022:2881-1)
  • 940010 AlmaLinux Security Update for spice (ALSA-2021:1924)
  • 960452 Rocky Linux Security Update for spice (RLSA-2021:1924)
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