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Oracle Linux 7 : spice / and / spice-gtk (ELSA-2020-4187)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 141311

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2020-4187 advisory.

 - Multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities were found in the QUIC image decoding process of the SPICE remote display system, before spice-0.14.2-1. Both the SPICE client (spice-gtk) and server are affected by these flaws. These flaws allow a malicious client or server to send specially crafted messages that, when processed by the QUIC image compression algorithm, result in a process crash or potential code execution.
 (CVE-2020-14355)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2020-4187.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 141311

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2020-4187.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/8/2020

Updated: 11/5/2020

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-14355

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.6

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:oracle:linux:7, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:spice-glib, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:spice-glib-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:spice-gtk-tools, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:spice-gtk3, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:spice-gtk3-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:spice-gtk3-vala, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:spice-server, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:spice-server-devel

Required KB Items: Host/OracleLinux, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/local_checks_enabled

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/8/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/7/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-14355