glsa-201811-20.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201811-20">
  <title>spice-gtk: Remote code execution</title>
  <synopsis>A vulnerability in spice-gtk could allow an attacker to remotely
    execute arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">spice-gtk</product>
  <announced>2018-11-27</announced>
  <revised count="1">2018-11-27</revised>
  <bug>650878</bug>
  <access>local, remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-misc/spice-gtk" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.34</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.34</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>spice-gtk is a set of GObject and Gtk objects for connecting to Spice
      servers and a client GUI.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>A vulnerability was found in spice-gtk client due to the incorrect use
      of integer types and missing overflow checks.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>An attacker, by enticing the user to join a malicious server, could
      remotely execute arbitrary code or cause a Denial of Service condition.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All spice-gtk users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-misc/spice-gtk-0.34"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12194">CVE-2017-12194</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2018-11-24T22:29:36Z">b-man</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2018-11-27T02:05:55Z">b-man</metadata>
</glsa>