Red Hat Enterprise Linux: QEMU-Guest Vulnerability Bulletin RHEA-2015:1900-2 CVE-2015-8244

Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 21:28:40 +0000
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Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Pat Riehecky 
Subject: Security ERRATA Important: spice-server on SL6.x x86_64
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Synopsis: Important: spice-server security update
Advisory ID: SLSA-2015:1889-1
Issue Date: 2015-10-12
CVE Numbers: CVE-2015-5260
 CVE-2015-5261
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A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way SPICE handled
certain guest QXL commands related to surface creation. A user in a guest
could use this flaw to read and write arbitrary memory locations on the
host. (CVE-2015-5261)

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way spice handled
certain QXL commands related to the "surface_id" parameter. A user in a
guest could use this flaw to crash the host QEMU-KVM process or, possibly,
execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the host QEMU-KVM process.
(CVE-2015-5260)
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SL6
 x86_64
 spice-server-0.12.4-12.el6_7.3.x86_64.rpm
 spice-server-debuginfo-0.12.4-12.el6_7.3.x86_64.rpm
 spice-server-devel-0.12.4-12.el6_7.3.x86_64.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team