Scientific Linux: SLSA-2013:1273-1 Critical Spice-Gtk Race Condition

Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 19:26:05 +0000
Reply-To: scientific-linux-users@
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Pat Riehecky 
Subject: Security ERRATA Important: spice-gtk on SL6.x i386/x86_64
MIME-Version: 1.0

Synopsis: Important: spice-gtk security update
Advisory ID: SLSA-2013:1273-1
Issue Date: 2013-09-19
CVE Numbers: CVE-2013-4324
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spice-gtk communicated with PolicyKit for authorization via an API that is
vulnerable to a race condition. This could lead to intended PolicyKit
authorizations being bypassed. This update modifies spice-gtk to
communicate with PolicyKit via a different API that is not vulnerable to
the race condition. (CVE-2013-4324)
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SL6
 x86_64
 spice-glib-0.14-7.el6_4.3.i686.rpm
 spice-glib-0.14-7.el6_4.3.x86_64.rpm
 spice-gtk-0.14-7.el6_4.3.i686.rpm
 spice-gtk-0.14-7.el6_4.3.x86_64.rpm
 spice-gtk-debuginfo-0.14-7.el6_4.3.i686.rpm
 spice-gtk-debuginfo-0.14-7.el6_4.3.x86_64.rpm
 spice-gtk-python-0.14-7.el6_4.3.x86_64.rpm
 spice-glib-devel-0.14-7.el6_4.3.i686.rpm
 spice-glib-devel-0.14-7.el6_4.3.x86_64.rpm
 spice-gtk-devel-0.14-7.el6_4.3.i686.rpm
 spice-gtk-devel-0.14-7.el6_4.3.x86_64.rpm
 spice-gtk-tools-0.14-7.el6_4.3.x86_64.rpm
 i386
 spice-glib-0.14-7.el6_4.3.i686.rpm
 spice-gtk-0.14-7.el6_4.3.i686.rpm
 spice-gtk-debuginfo-0.14-7.el6_4.3.i686.rpm
 spice-gtk-python-0.14-7.el6_4.3.i686.rpm
 spice-glib-devel-0.14-7.el6_4.3.i686.rpm
 spice-gtk-devel-0.14-7.el6_4.3.i686.rpm
 spice-gtk-tools-0.14-7.el6_4.3.i686.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team