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SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : spice-gtk (SUSE-SU-2018:0877-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 108874

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This update for spice-gtk fixes the following issues :

 - CVE-2017-12194: A flaw was found in the way spice-client processed certain messages sent from the server. An attacker, having control of malicious spice-server, could use this flaw to crash the client or execute arbitrary code with permissions of the user running the client. spice-gtk versions through 0.34 are believed to be vulnerable. (bsc#1085415)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP3-2018-592=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2018-592=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP3-2018-592=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1085415

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-12194/

http://www.nessus.org/u?ca98fae5

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 108874

File Name: suse_SU-2018-0877-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/6/2018

Updated: 11/14/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-12194

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libspice-client-glib-2_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libspice-client-glib-helper, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:typelib-1_0-spiceclientgtk, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libspice-client-glib-helper-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:spice-gtk-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libspice-client-gtk-3_0-5-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libspice-controller0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:spice-gtk-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libspice-controller0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libspice-client-gtk-3_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:typelib-1_0-spiceclientglib, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libspice-client-glib-2_0-8-debuginfo

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/5/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/14/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-12194