Synopsis: Important: spice-server security update Advisory ID: SLSA-2016:1204-1 Issue Date: 2016-06-06 CVE Numbers: CVE-2016-0749 CVE-2016-2150 -- Security Fix(es): * A memory allocation flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in spice's smartcard interaction, which runs under the QEMU-KVM context on the host. A user connecting to a guest VM using spice could potentially use this flaw to crash the QEMU-KVM process or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the host's QEMU-KVM process. (CVE-2016-0749) * A memory access flaw was found in the way spice handled certain guests using crafted primary surface parameters. A user in a guest could use this flaw to read from and write to arbitrary memory locations on the host. (CVE-2016-2150) The CVE-2016-0749 issue was discovered by Jing Zhao (Red Hat) and the CVE-2016-2150 issue was discovered by Frediano Ziglio (Red Hat). -- SL6 x86_64 spice-server-0.12.4-13.el6.1.x86_64.rpm spice-server-debuginfo-0.12.4-13.el6.1.x86_64.rpm spice-server-devel-0.12.4-13.el6.1.x86_64.rpm - Scientific Linux Development Team