[USN-3202-1] Spice vulnerabilities
Marc Deslauriers
marc.deslauriers at canonical.com
Mon Feb 20 18:42:53 UTC 2017
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3202-1
February 20, 2017
spice vulnerabilities
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 16.10
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Summary:
Spice could be made to crash or run programs if it received specially
crafted network traffic.
Software Description:
- spice: SPICE protocol client and server library
Details:
Frediano Ziglio discovered that Spice incorrectly handled certain client
messages. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Spice to crash,
resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
Update instructions:
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:
Ubuntu 16.10:
libspice-server1 0.12.8-1ubuntu0.1
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
libspice-server1 0.12.6-4ubuntu0.2
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
libspice-server1 0.12.4-0nocelt2ubuntu1.4
After a standard system update you need to restart qemu guests to make
all the necessary changes.
References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3202-1
CVE-2016-9577, CVE-2016-9578
Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/spice/0.12.8-1ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/spice/0.12.6-4ubuntu0.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/spice/0.12.4-0nocelt2ubuntu1.4
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