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Ubuntu 15.04 & 14.04 USN-2766-1 Critical: Spice Exploits

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Calendar Grey October 7, 2015
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2766-1 highlights critical vulnerabilities in the Spice library used in remote desktop solutions, advising updates for improved security and stability
Spice could be made to crash or run programs.

Summary

Spice could be made to crash or run programs.

Software Description:

- spice: SPICE protocol client and server library

Details:

Frediano Ziglio discovered multiple buffer overflows, undefined behavior

signed integer operations, race conditions, memory leaks, and denial

of service issues in Spice. A malicious guest operating system could

potentially exploit these issues to escape virtualization. (CVE-2015-5260,

CVE-2015-5261)

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Topics Covered

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Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 15.04:
  libspice-server1                0.12.5-1ubuntu0.2

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  libspice-server1                0.12.4-0nocelt2ubuntu1.2

After a standard system update you need to restart qemu guests to make
all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2766-1

CVE-2015-5260, CVE-2015-5261

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October 07, 2015

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Topics Covered

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Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/spice/0.12.5-1ubuntu0.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/spice/0.12.4-0nocelt2ubuntu1.2

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