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SUSE SLES15 Security Update : spice-gtk (SUSE-SU-2021:1911-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 150473

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2021:1911-1 advisory.

 - Multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities were found in the QUIC image decoding process of the SPICE remote display system, before spice-0.14.2-1. Both the SPICE client (spice-gtk) and server are affected by these flaws. These flaws allow a malicious client or server to send specially crafted messages that, when processed by the QUIC image compression algorithm, result in a process crash or potential code execution.
 (CVE-2020-14355)

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 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1177158

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-14355

http://www.nessus.org/u?f7b06370

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 150473

File Name: suse_SU-2021-1911-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/10/2021

Updated: 7/13/2023

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: 4.0

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-2020-14355

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.6

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libspice-client-glib-helper, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:typelib-1_0-spiceclientglib-2_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libspice-client-glib-2_0-8, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libspice-client-gtk-3_0-5, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libspice-controller0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:typelib-1_0-spiceclientgtk-3_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:spice-gtk-devel, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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: 6/9/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/6/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-14355

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2021:1911-1