SUSE SLES11 Security Update : spice (SUSE-SU-2016:1259-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 90995

Synopsis

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

Description

Spice was updated to fix three security issues.

The following vulnerabilities were fixed :

- CVE-2015-3247: heap corruption in the spice server (bsc#944460)

- CVE-2015-5261: Guest could have accessed host memory using crafted images (bsc#948976)

- CVE-2015-5260: Insufficient validation of surface_id parameter could have caused a crash (bsc#944787)

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 YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch sdksp4-spice-12542=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch slessp4-spice-12542=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch dbgsp4-spice-12542=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=944460

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=944787

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=948976

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-3247/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5260/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5261/

http://www.nessus.org/u?3ca58797

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 90995

File Name: suse_SU-2016-1259-1.nasl

Version: 2.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/9/2016

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/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:novell:suse_linux:libspice-server1, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11

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: 5/7/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/8/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-3247, CVE-2015-5260, CVE-2015-5261