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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6: RHSA-2020-0471-01 Moderate Spice-GTK Overflow

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Calendar Grey February 11, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Updated security notification concerning a vulnerable component in Red Hat's spice-gtk library, focusing on potential buffer overflow issues. More information enclosed.
An update for spice-gtk is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

The spice-gtk packages provide a GIMP Toolkit (GTK+) widget for Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments (SPICE) clients. Both Virtual Machine Manager and Virtual Machine Viewer can make use of this widget to access virtual machines using the SPICE protocol.
Security Fix(es):
* spice-client: Insufficient encoding checks for LZ can cause different integer/buffer overflows (CVE-2018-10893)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate buffer overflow red hat security fix linux update spice-gtk

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-10893 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6):
Source: spice-gtk-0.26-8.el6_10.2.src.rpm
i386: spice-glib-0.26-8.el6_10.2.i686.rpm spice-gtk-0.26-8.el6_10.2.i686.rpm spice-gtk-debuginfo-0.26-8.el6_10.2.i686.rpm spice-gtk-python-0.26-8.el6_10.2.i686.rpm
x86_64: spice-glib-0.26-8.el6_10.2.i686.rpm spice-glib-0.26-8.el6_10.2.x86_64.rpm spice-gtk-0.26-8.el6_10.2.i686.rpm spice-gtk-0.26-8.el6_10.2.x86_64.rpm spice-gtk-debuginfo-0.26-8.el6_10.2.i686.rpm spice-gtk-debuginfo-0.26-8.el6_10.2.x86_64.rpm spice-gtk-python-0.26-8.el6_10.2.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6):
i386: spice-glib-devel-0.26-8.el6_10.2.i686.rpm spice-gtk-debuginfo-0.26-8.el6_10.2.i686.rpm spice-gtk-devel-0.26-8.el6_10.2.i686.rpm spice-gtk-tools-0.26-8.el6_10.2.i686.rpm
x86_64: spice-glib-devel-0.26-8.el6_10.2.i686.rpm spice-glib-devel-0.26-8.el6_10.2.x86_64.rpm spice-gtk-debuginfo-0.26-8.el6_10.2.i686.rpm spice-gtk-debuginfo-0.26-8.el6_10.2.x86_64.rpm spice-gtk-devel-0.26-8.el6_10.2.i686.rpm spice-gtk-devel-0.26-8.el6_10.2.x86_64.rpm spice-gtk-tools-0.26-8.el6_10.2.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6):
Source: spice-gtk-0.26-8.el6_10.2.src.rpm
x86_64: spice-glib-0.26-8.el6_10.2.i686.rpm spice-glib-0.26-8.el6_10.2.x86_64.rpm spice-gtk-0.26-8.el6_10.2.i686.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:0471-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0471
Issue date: 2020-02-11

Topic

An update for spice-gtk is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate buffer overflow red hat security fix linux update spice-gtk

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1598234 - CVE-2018-10893 spice-client: Insufficient encoding checks for LZ can cause different integer/buffer overflows

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