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SUSE: 2021:1902-1 Important Spice Denial Of Service And Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey June 8, 2021
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An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available

Summary

This update for spice fixes the following issues: - CVE-2021-20201: client initiated renegotiation causing denial of service (bsc#1181686) - CVE-2020-14355: Fixed multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities in QUIC decoding code (bsc#1177158) 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 Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-BCL: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-BCL-2021-1902=1 Package List: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-BCL (x86_64): libspice-server1-0.12.7-10.12.1 libspice-server1-debuginfo-0.12.7-10.12.1 spice-debugsource-0.12.7-10.12.1

References

#1177158 #1181686

Cross- CVE-2020-14355 CVE-2021-20201

CVSS scores:

CVE-2020-14355 (NVD) : 6.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

CVE-2020-14355 (SUSE): 6.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

CVE-2021-20201 (NVD) : 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CVE-2021-20201 (SUSE): 6.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-BCL

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-14355.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20201.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1177158

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1181686

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2021:1902-1
Rating: important

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