Oracle Linux 8 : spice (ELSA-2021-1924)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 149910

Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2021-1924 advisory.

[0.14.3-4]
- Disable client-side renegotiation to prevent potential DoS Resolves: rhbz#1904459

[0.14.3-3]
- Fix some static analyzer issues
- Removed Obsoletes line for spice-client Related: rhbz#1840240

[0.14.3-2]
- Fix multiple buffer overflows in QUIC decoding code Resolves: rhbz#1829946

[0.14.3-1]
- Update to 0.14.3 Revolves: rhbz#1840240

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle 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 affected spice-server and / or spice-server-devel packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2021-1924.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 149910

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2021-1924.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/26/2021

Updated: 10/22/2024

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-20201

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:spice-server-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:spice-server, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/25/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/18/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-20201