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openSUSE Leap 42.3: 2017:2604-1 Important Spice Memory Access Issue

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Calendar Grey September 30, 2017
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Addresses severe memory access vulnerability in spice for openSUSE Leap 42.3. Urgent security update released immediately.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

This update for spice fixes the following security issues:

- CVE-2017-7506: Fixed an out-of-bounds memory access when processing

specially crafted messages from authenticated attacker to the spice

server resulting into crash and/or server memory leak (bsc#1046779).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP3:Update update project.

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Topics Covered

security advisory important attack memory access crash spice openSUSE Leap

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 42.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2017-1110=1

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

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (x86_64):

libspice-server-devel-0.12.8-3.1

libspice-server1-0.12.8-3.1

libspice-server1-debuginfo-0.12.8-3.1

spice-debugsource-0.12.8-3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7506.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1046779

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2017:2604-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3 .

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Topics Covered

security advisory important attack memory access crash spice openSUSE Leap

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