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ELSA-2015-1889 Important: Oracle Linux spice-server security update

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ELSA-2015-1889 Important: Oracle Linux spice-server security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
10/12/2015
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/15/2015
Modified
04/11/2019

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in SPICE before 0.12.6 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (heap-based memory corruption and QEMU-KVM crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host via QXL commands related to the surface_id parameter.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-spice-server
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-spice-server-devel

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