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RHEL 6 : spice-gtk (RHSA-2013:1273)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 70012

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated spice-gtk packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

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

spice-gtk communicated with PolicyKit for authorization via an API that is vulnerable to a race condition. This could lead to intended PolicyKit authorizations being bypassed. This update modifies spice-gtk to communicate with PolicyKit via a different API that is not vulnerable to the race condition. (CVE-2013-4324)

All users of spice-gtk are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:1273

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2013-4324

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 70012

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2013-1273.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/20/2013

Updated: 1/14/2021

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: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

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

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-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spice-gtk-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spice-glib, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.4, 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

Patch Publication Date: 9/19/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/3/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4324

RHSA: 2013:1273