SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-ERRATA Archives

September 2012

SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-ERRATA@LISTSERV.FNAL.GOV

Options: Use Monospaced Font
Show Text Part by Default
Show All Mail Headers

Message: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Topic: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Author: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]

Print Reply
Subject:
From:
Pat Riehecky <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:
Pat Riehecky <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Thu, 20 Sep 2012 08:34:55 -0500
Content-Type:
text/plain
Parts/Attachments:
text/plain (94 lines)
An update to virt-viewer has been added for all versions as well.  This 
should resolve any dependency issues related to updating spice-glib on 
systems with virt-viewer.

Pat

On 09/17/2012 01:43 PM, Pat Riehecky wrote:
> Synopsis:          Moderate: spice-gtk security update
> Issue Date:        2012-09-17
> CVE Numbers:       CVE-2012-4425
>
> 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.
>
> It was discovered that the spice-gtk setuid helper application,
> spice-client-glib-usb-acl-helper, did not clear the environment variables
> read by the libraries it uses. A local attacker could possibly use this
> flaw to escalate their privileges by setting specific environment 
> variables
> before running the helper application. (CVE-2012-4425)
>
> All users of spice-gtk are advised to upgrade to these updated packages,
> which contain a backported patch to correct this issue.
>
> To resolve dependencies gtk2, libcacard, libusb1, and spice-protocol
> have been added to the necessary repositories.
>
>
> SL6
>   x86_64
>     spice-glib-0.11-11.el6_3.1.i686.rpm
>     spice-glib-0.11-11.el6_3.1.x86_64.rpm
>     spice-gtk-0.11-11.el6_3.1.i686.rpm
>     spice-gtk-0.11-11.el6_3.1.x86_64.rpm
>     spice-gtk-python-0.11-11.el6_3.1.x86_64.rpm
>     spice-glib-devel-0.11-11.el6_3.1.i686.rpm
>     spice-glib-devel-0.11-11.el6_3.1.x86_64.rpm
>     spice-gtk-devel-0.11-11.el6_3.1.i686.rpm
>     spice-gtk-devel-0.11-11.el6_3.1.x86_64.rpm
>     spice-gtk-tools-0.11-11.el6_3.1.x86_64.rpm
>
>     Dependencies:
>     gtk2-2.18.9-10.el6.i686.rpm
>     gtk2-2.18.9-10.el6.x86_64.rpm
>     gtk2-devel-2.18.9-10.el6.i686.rpm
>     gtk2-devel-2.18.9-10.el6.x86_64.rpm
>     gtk2-devel-docs-2.18.9-10.el6.x86_64.rpm
>     gtk2-immodules-2.18.9-10.el6.i686.rpm
>     gtk2-immodules-2.18.9-10.el6.x86_64.rpm
>     gtk2-immodule-xim-2.18.9-10.el6.i686.rpm
>     gtk2-immodule-xim-2.18.9-10.el6.x86_64.rpm
>     libcacard-0.15.0-2.el6.i686.rpm
>     libcacard-0.15.0-2.el6.x86_64.rpm
>     libcacard-devel-0.15.0-2.el6.i686.rpm
>     libcacard-devel-0.15.0-2.el6.x86_64.rpm
>     libcacard-tools-0.15.0-2.el6.x86_64.rpm
>     libusb1-1.0.9-0.5.rc1.el6.i686.rpm
>     libusb1-1.0.9-0.5.rc1.el6.x86_64.rpm
>     libusb1-devel-1.0.9-0.5.rc1.el6.i686.rpm
>     libusb1-devel-1.0.9-0.5.rc1.el6.x86_64.rpm
>     libusb1-static-1.0.9-0.5.rc1.el6.x86_64.rpm
>     spice-protocol-0.10.1-5.el6.noarch.rpm
>
>   i386
>     spice-glib-0.11-11.el6_3.1.i686.rpm
>     spice-gtk-0.11-11.el6_3.1.i686.rpm
>     spice-gtk-python-0.11-11.el6_3.1.i686.rpm
>     spice-glib-devel-0.11-11.el6_3.1.i686.rpm
>     spice-gtk-devel-0.11-11.el6_3.1.i686.rpm
>     spice-gtk-tools-0.11-11.el6_3.1.i686.rpm
>
>     Dependencies:
>     gtk2-2.18.9-10.el6.i686.rpm
>     gtk2-devel-2.18.9-10.el6.i686.rpm
>     gtk2-devel-docs-2.18.9-10.el6.i686.rpm
>     gtk2-immodules-2.18.9-10.el6.i686.rpm
>     gtk2-immodule-xim-2.18.9-10.el6.i686.rpm
>     libcacard-0.15.0-2.el6.i686.rpm
>     libcacard-devel-0.15.0-2.el6.i686.rpm
>     libcacard-tools-0.15.0-2.el6.i686.rpm
>     libusb1-1.0.9-0.5.rc1.el6.i686.rpm
>     libusb1-devel-1.0.9-0.5.rc1.el6.i686.rpm
>     libusb1-static-1.0.9-0.5.rc1.el6.i686.rpm
>     spice-protocol-0.10.1-5.el6.noarch.rpm
>
> - Scientific Linux Development Team


-- 
Pat Riehecky
Scientific Linux Developer

ATOM RSS1 RSS2