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CVE-2016-9578

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-9578 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in SPICE versions prior to 0.13.90, affecting products like Debian and Red Hat. An unauthenticated attacker could crash the SPICE server by sending specially crafted messages, resulting in a high-severity impact to availability. While no public exploits or active exploitation have been observed, and community discussion is minimal, the vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH) due to its network-based attack vector and low attack complexity.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 0.13.90CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:spice_project:spice:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.49%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
83.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0249 is in the 70th percentile among its peer group of 51,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (7)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: spice-server-0:0.12.4-13.el6_8.2
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: spice-0:0.12.4-20.el7_3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: imgbased-0:0.8.16-0.1.el7ev
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: redhat-release-virtualization-host-0:4.0-7.1.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: redhat-virtualization-host-0:4.0-20170307.1
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: rhevm-appliance-0:20170307.0-1
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Virtualization 4Fixed in: distribution

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2016-9578Moderate

spice: Remote DoS via crafted message

Feb 6, 2017

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017-0253.html
Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017-0549.html
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017:0254
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017:0552
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2017/dsa-3790
Third Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/96118
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry