MGASA-2020-0408 - Updated spice and spice-gtk packages fix a security vulnerability

Publication date: 10 Nov 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0408.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 7
CVE: CVE-202020-14355

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)

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27368
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4186
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/10/06/10
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4572-1
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-202020-14355

SRPMS:
- 7/core/spice-0.14.2-1.1.mga7
- 7/core/spice-gtk-0.37-1.mga7

Mageia 2020-0408: spice and spice-gtk security update

Multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities were found in the QUIC image decoding process of the SPICE remote display system, before spice-0.14.2-1

Summary

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)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27368

- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4186

- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/10/06/10

- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4572-1

- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-202020-14355

Resolution

MGASA-2020-0408 - Updated spice and spice-gtk packages fix a security vulnerability

SRPMS

- 7/core/spice-0.14.2-1.1.mga7

- 7/core/spice-gtk-0.37-1.mga7

Severity
Publication date: 10 Nov 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0408.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-202020-14355

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