| Revision Date: | 2017-02-06 | Version: | 637 |
| Title: | RHSA-2017:0254: spice security update (Moderate) |
| Description: | The Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments (SPICE) is a remote display system built for virtual environments which allows the user to view a computing 'desktop' environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures.
Security Fix(es):
A vulnerability was discovered in spice in the server's protocol handling. An authenticated attacker could send crafted messages to the spice server causing a heap overflow leading to a crash or possible code execution. (CVE-2016-9577)
A vulnerability was discovered in spice in the server's protocol handling. An attacker able to connect to the spice server could send crafted messages which would cause the process to crash. (CVE-2016-9578)
These issues were discovered by Frediano Ziglio (Red Hat).
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| Family: | unix | Class: | patch |
| Status: | | Reference(s): | CVE-2016-9577
CVE-2016-9578
RHSA-2017:0254
RHSA-2017:0254-00
RHSA-2017:0254-01
RHSA-2017:0254-01
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| Platform(s): | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
| Product(s): | |
| Definition Synopsis |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux must be installed OR Package Information
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 is installed
AND
spice-server is earlier than 0:0.12.4-20.el7_3
AND spice-server is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
spice-server-devel is earlier than 0:0.12.4-20.el7_3
AND spice-server-devel is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
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