Oval Definition:oval:com.redhat.rhsa:def:20211791
Revision Date:2021-05-18Version:638
Title:RHSA-2021:1791: spice-vdagent security and bug fix update (Moderate)
Description:The spice-vdagent packages provide a SPICE agent for Linux guests.

Security Fix(es):

  • spice-vdagent: possible file transfer DoS and information leak via active_xfers hash map (CVE-2020-25651)

  • spice-vdagent: UNIX domain socket peer PID retrieved via SO_PEERCRED is subject to race condition (CVE-2020-25653)

  • spice-vdagent: memory DoS via arbitrary entries in active_xfers hash table (CVE-2020-25650)

  • spice-vdagent: possibility to exhaust file descriptors in vdagentd (CVE-2020-25652)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    Additional Changes:

    For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Release Notes linked from the References section.
  • Family:unixClass:patch
    Status:Reference(s):CVE-2020-25650
    CVE-2020-25651
    CVE-2020-25652
    CVE-2020-25653
    RHSA-2021:1791
    Platform(s):Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
    Product(s):
    Definition Synopsis
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux must be installed
  • OR Package Information
  • spice-vdagent is earlier than 0:0.20.0-3.el8
  • AND spice-vdagent is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • AND
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 is installed
  • OR Red Hat CoreOS 4 is installed
  • BACK