Synopsis:          Important: spice-server security update
Advisory ID:       SLSA-2015:1889-1
Issue Date:        2015-10-12
CVE Numbers:       CVE-2015-5260
                   CVE-2015-5261
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A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way SPICE handled
certain guest QXL commands related to surface creation. A user in a guest
could use this flaw to read and write arbitrary memory locations on the
host. (CVE-2015-5261)

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way spice handled
certain QXL commands related to the "surface_id" parameter. A user in a
guest could use this flaw to crash the host QEMU-KVM process or, possibly,
execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the host QEMU-KVM process.
(CVE-2015-5260)
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SL6
  x86_64
    spice-server-0.12.4-12.el6_7.3.x86_64.rpm
    spice-server-debuginfo-0.12.4-12.el6_7.3.x86_64.rpm
    spice-server-devel-0.12.4-12.el6_7.3.x86_64.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team