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[USN-3014-1] Spice vulnerabilities

Posted on 21 June 2016
Ubuntu Security

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3014-1
June 21, 2016

spice vulnerabilities
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 15.10
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary:

Several security issues were fixed in Spice.

Software Description:
- spice: SPICE protocol client and server library

Details:

Jing Zhao discovered that the Spice smartcard support incorrectly handled=

memory. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Spice to crash,
resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. Thi=
s
issue only applied to Ubuntu 15.10 and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-0749)

Frediano Ziglio discovered that Spice incorrectly handled certain primary=

surface parameters. A malicious guest operating system could potentially
exploit this issue to escape virtualization. (CVE-2016-2150)

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
libspice-server1 0.12.6-4ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 15.10:
libspice-server1 0.12.5-1.1ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
libspice-server1 0.12.4-0nocelt2ubuntu1.3

After a standard system update you need to restart qemu guests to make
all the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3014-1
CVE-2016-0749, CVE-2016-2150

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/spice/0.12.6-4ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/spice/0.12.5-1.1ubuntu2.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/spice/0.12.4-0nocelt2ubuntu1.3



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