Important: spice

Issue Overview:

Multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities were found in the QUIC image decoding process of the SPICE remote display system. Both the SPICE client (spice-gtk) and server are affected by these flaws. These flaws allow a malicious client or server to send specially crafted messages that, when processed by the QUIC image compression algorithm, result in a process crash or potential code execution. (CVE-2020-14355)

Affected Packages:

spice

Note:

This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.

Issue Correction:
Run yum update spice to update your system.

New Packages:

src:  
    spice-0.14.0-9.amzn2.1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    spice-server-0.14.0-9.amzn2.1.x86_64  
    spice-server-devel-0.14.0-9.amzn2.1.x86_64  
    spice-debuginfo-0.14.0-9.amzn2.1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2020-14355

Mitre: CVE-2020-14355