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openSUSE 42.2: 2017:0419-1 Important Spice Buffer Overflow and DoS

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Calendar Grey February 8, 2017
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Significant announcement regarding openSUSE spice rectifying two vulnerabilities related to buffer overflows and susceptibility to denial of service attacks is now accessible.
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

Description

This security update for spice fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2016-9577: A buffer overflow in the spice server could have

potentially been used by unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary

code. (bsc#1023078)

- CVE-2016-9578: Unauthenticated attackers could have caused a denial of

service via a crafted message. (bsc#1023079)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP2:Update update project.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service update buffer overflow important openSUSE spice

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2017-228=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.2 (i586 x86_64):

libspice-server-devel-0.12.7-3.1

libspice-server1-0.12.7-3.1

libspice-server1-debuginfo-0.12.7-3.1

spice-client-0.12.7-3.1

spice-debugsource-0.12.7-3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9577.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9578.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1023078

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1023079

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2017:0419-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.2

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service update buffer overflow important openSUSE spice

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