Heap-based buffer overflow in SPICE before 0.12.6 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (heap-based memory corruption and QEMU-KVM crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host via QXL commands related to the surface_id parameter.

spice was updated to fix four security issues.

These security issues were fixed :

  - CVE-2016-2150: Guest escape using crafted primary     surface parameters (bsc#982386).

  - CVE-2016-0749: Heap-based buffer overflow in smartcard     interaction (bsc#982385).

  - CVE-2015-5260: Insufficient validation of surface_id     parameter could have caused a crash (bsc#944787).

  - CVE-2015-5261: Host memory access from guest using     crafted images (bsc#948976).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201606-05 (spice: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in spice, please review       the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
  Impact :

    A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code. Additionally, a       local attacker could cause a Denial of Service.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

Spice was updated to fix three security issues.

The following vulnerabilities were fixed :

  - CVE-2015-3247: heap corruption in the spice server     (bsc#944460)

  - CVE-2015-5261: Guest could have accessed host memory     using crafted images (bsc#948976)

  - CVE-2015-5260: Insufficient validation of surface_id     parameter could have caused a crash (bsc#944787)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Updated spice packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

The Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments (SPICE) is a remote display protocol for virtual environments. SPICE users can access a virtualized desktop or server from the local system or any system with network access to the server. SPICE is used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux for viewing virtualized guests running on the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor or on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisors.

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)

These issues were discovered by Frediano Ziglio of Red Hat.

All spice users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues.

An updated spice-server package that fixes two security issues is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

The Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments (SPICE) is a remote display protocol for virtual environments. SPICE users can access a virtualized desktop or server from the local system or any system with network access to the server. SPICE is used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux for viewing virtualized guests running on the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor or on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisors.

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)

These issues were discovered by Frediano Ziglio of Red Hat.

All spice-server users are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which contains backported patches to correct these issues.

Spice was updated to fix three security issues.

The following vulnerabilities were fixed :

  - CVE-2015-3247: heap corruption in the spice server     (bsc#944460)

  - CVE-2015-5261: Guest could have accessed host memory     using crafted images (bsc#948976)

  - CVE-2015-5260: Insufficient validation of surface_id     parameter could have caused a crash (bsc#944460)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Spice was updated to fix four security issues.

The following vulnerabilities were fixed :

  - CVE-2015-3247: heap corruption in the spice server     (bsc#944460)

  - CVE-2015-5261: Guest could have accessed host memory     using crafted images (bsc#948976)

  - CVE-2015-5260: Insufficient validation of surface_id     parameter could have caused a crash (bsc#944460)

  - CVE-2013-4282: Buffer overflow in password handling     (bsc#848279)

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)

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2015:1890 :

Updated spice packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

The Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments (SPICE) is a remote display protocol for virtual environments. SPICE users can access a virtualized desktop or server from the local system or any system with network access to the server. SPICE is used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux for viewing virtualized guests running on the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor or on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisors.

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)

These issues were discovered by Frediano Ziglio of Red Hat.

All spice users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues.

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2015:1889 :

An updated spice-server package that fixes two security issues is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

The Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments (SPICE) is a remote display protocol for virtual environments. SPICE users can access a virtualized desktop or server from the local system or any system with network access to the server. SPICE is used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux for viewing virtualized guests running on the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor or on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisors.

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)

These issues were discovered by Frediano Ziglio of Red Hat.

All spice-server users are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which contains backported patches to correct these issues.

Frediano Ziglio of Red Hat discovered several vulnerabilities in spice, a SPICE protocol client and server library. A malicious guest can exploit these flaws to cause a denial of service (QEMU process crash), execute arbitrary code on the host with the privileges of the hosting QEMU process or read and write arbitrary memory locations on the host.

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).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
91659	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : spice (SUSE-SU-2016:1559-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
91638	GLSA-201606-05 : spice: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	critical
90995	SUSE SLES11 Security Update : spice (SUSE-SU-2016:1259-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
86484	CentOS 7 : spice (CESA-2015:1890)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	high
86483	CentOS 6 : spice-server (CESA-2015:1889)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	high
86397	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : spice (SUSE-SU-2015:1733-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
86392	openSUSE Security Update : spice (openSUSE-2015-657)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
86364	Scientific Linux Security Update : spice-server on SL6.x x86_64 (20151012)	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	high
86363	Scientific Linux Security Update : spice on SL7.x x86_64 (20151012)	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	high
86362	RHEL 7 : spice (RHSA-2015:1890)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
86361	RHEL 6 : spice-server (RHSA-2015:1889)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
86360	Oracle Linux 7 : spice (ELSA-2015-1890)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	high
86359	Oracle Linux 6 : spice-server (ELSA-2015-1889)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	high
86329	Debian DSA-3371-1 : spice - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
86310	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Spice vulnerabilities (USN-2766-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high

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