Scientific Linux Security Update : spice-server on SL6.x x86_64 (20160606)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 91647

Synopsis

The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Security Fix(es) :

- A memory allocation flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in spice's smartcard interaction, which runs under the QEMU-KVM context on the host. A user connecting to a guest VM using spice could potentially use this flaw to crash the QEMU-KVM process or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the host's QEMU-KVM process. (CVE-2016-0749)

- A memory access flaw was found in the way spice handled certain guests using crafted primary surface parameters.
A user in a guest could use this flaw to read from and write to arbitrary memory locations on the host.
(CVE-2016-2150)

The CVE-2016-0749 issue was discovered by Jing Zhao (Red Hat) and the CVE-2016-2150 issue was discovered by Frediano Ziglio (Red Hat).

Solution

Update the affected spice-server, spice-server-debuginfo and / or spice-server-devel packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?876f2005

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 91647

File Name: sl_20160606_spice_server_on_SL6_x.nasl

Version: 2.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/17/2016

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:spice-server, p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:spice-server-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:spice-server-devel, x-cpe:/o:fermilab:scientific_linux

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/6/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/9/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-0749, CVE-2016-2150