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Fedora 24 Spice Update 2017-61689edaf4 Moderate Buffer Overflow Fix

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Calendar Grey July 20, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest Spice security patch rectifies CVE-2017-7506 for Fedora 24, focusing on addressing a critical buffer overflow vulnerability.
Security fix for CVE-2017-7506

Summary

The Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments (SPICE) is

a remote display system built for virtual environments which allows

you 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 for CVE-2017-7506

[ 1 ] Bug #1452606 - CVE-2017-7506 spice: Possible buffer overflow via invalid monitor configurations

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1452606

su -c 'dnf upgrade spice' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 24
Version: 0.12.8
Release: 3.fc24
URL:
Summary: Implements the SPICE protocol

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