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Fedora 25: FEDORA-2017-5972ebe591 Critical Patch for Spice Remote Access

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Calendar Grey February 9, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 25 spice upgrades tackle major flaws related to remote connection security. Uncover the most recent enhancements and resolutions.
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

Change Log

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2017-5972ebe591 2017-02-09 16:27:58.036812
Name : spice Product : Fedora 25 Version : 0.13.3 Release : 2.fc25 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 25
Version: 0.13.3
Release: 2.fc25
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Summary: Implements the SPICE protocol

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