RHEL 6 : spice-gtk (RHSA-2020:0471)

high Nessus Plugin ID 133640

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for spice-gtk.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:0471 advisory.

The spice-gtk packages provide a GIMP Toolkit (GTK+) widget for Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments (SPICE) clients. Both Virtual Machine Manager and Virtual Machine Viewer can make use of this widget to access virtual machines using the SPICE protocol.

Security Fix(es):

* spice-client: Insufficient encoding checks for LZ can cause different integer/buffer overflows (CVE-2018-10893)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL spice-gtk package based on the guidance in RHSA-2020:0471.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?d587c8ea

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0471

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1598234

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 133640

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-0471.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/12/2020

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-10893

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spice-gtk-python, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spice-gtk-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spice-gtk, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spice-gtk-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spice-glib, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spice-glib-devel

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/11/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/11/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-10893

CWE: 190

RHSA: 2020:0471