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Mageia 8: MGASA-2021-0405 Moderate: Spice Denial of Service Threat

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Calendar Grey August 15, 2021
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Recent updates for Spice address a critical security vulnerability that could facilitate remote Denial of Service (DoS) attacks on Mageia 8. Discover the details for more insights
Updated spice packages fix security vulnerability: A flaw was found in spice in versions before 0.14.92

Summary

Updated spice packages fix security vulnerability:
A flaw was found in spice in versions before 0.14.92. A DoS tool might make it easier for remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) by performing many renegotiations within a single connection (CVE-2021-20201).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28947

- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1924

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- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-20201

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate denial of service security update vulnerability spice Mageia

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/spice-0.14.3-3.1.mga8

Publication date: 15 Aug 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0405.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2021-20201

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate denial of service security update vulnerability spice Mageia

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