Security update for spice

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2016:1259-1
Rating: moderate
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CVSS scores:
  • CVE-2015-3247 ( SUSE ): 7.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • CVE-2015-5260 ( SUSE ): 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • CVE-2015-5260 ( NVD ): 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • CVE-2015-5261 ( SUSE ): 7.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Affected Products:
  • SLES for SAP Applications 11-SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4

An update that solves three vulnerabilities can now be installed.

Description:

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)

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE 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 Software Development Kit 11 SP4
    zypper in -t patch sdksp4-spice-12542=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4
    zypper in -t patch slessp4-spice-12542=1
  • SLES for SAP Applications 11-SP4
    zypper in -t patch slessp4-spice-12542=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 (x86_64 i586)
    • libspice-server-devel-0.12.4-5.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 (x86_64 i586)
    • libspice-server1-0.12.4-5.1
  • SLES for SAP Applications 11-SP4 (x86_64)
    • libspice-server1-0.12.4-5.1

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