USN-2766-1: Spice vulnerabilities

7 October 2015

Spice could be made to crash or run programs.

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Releases

Packages

  • spice - SPICE protocol client and server library

Details

Frediano Ziglio discovered multiple buffer overflows, undefined behavior
signed integer operations, race conditions, memory leaks, and denial
of service issues in Spice. A malicious guest operating system could
potentially exploit these issues to escape virtualization. (CVE-2015-5260,
CVE-2015-5261)

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 15.04
Ubuntu 14.04

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

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