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Fedora 24: Spice Security Advisory for CVE-2016-9577 and CVE-2016-9578

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Calendar Grey February 9, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
A recent Ubuntu security bulletin outlines the release of fixes targeting particular weaknesses within the libvirt package.
Add upstream patches fixing CVE-2016-9577 and CVE-2016-9578

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.

Update Information:

Add upstream patches fixing CVE-2016-9577 and CVE-2016-9578

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora security fix patch remote display spice

Change Log

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2017-05793780f0 2017-02-09 16:28:05.011700
Name : spice Product : Fedora 24 Version : 0.12.8 Release : 2.fc24 URL : Summary : Implements the SPICE protocol Description : 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.

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use 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

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Name: spice
Product: Fedora 24
Version: 0.12.8
Release: 2.fc24
URL:
Summary: Implements the SPICE protocol

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora security fix patch remote display spice

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