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SUSE: 2020:3842-1 Important: Spice Buffer Overflow and Heap Corruption

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Calendar Grey December 16, 2020
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Important SUSE patch for spice resolves major vulnerabilities: memory mishandling and data overflow, including step-by-step installation guide.
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available

Summary

This update for spice fixes the following issues: - CVE-2018-10873: Fixed a potential heap corruption when demarshalling (bsc#1104448) - CVE-2018-10893: Fixed a buffer overflow on image lz checks (bsc#1101295) Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7: zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-7-2020-3842=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP2: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP2-2020-3842=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-LTSS: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2020-3842=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-BCL: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-BCL-2020-3842=1

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References

#1101295 #1104448

Cross- CVE-2018-10873 CVE-2018-10893

Affected Products:

SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-BCL

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-10873.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-10893.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1101295

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1104448

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2020:3842-1
Rating: important

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