spice security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2017:2471

The Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments (SPICE) is a remote display system built for virtual environments which allows the user to view a computing ‘desktop’ environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures.

Security Fix(es):

• A vulnerability was discovered in spice server’s protocol handling. An authenticated attacker could send specially crafted messages to the spice server, causing out-of-bounds memory accesses, leading to parts of server memory being leaked or a crash. (CVE-2017-7506)

This issue was discovered by Frediano Ziglio (Red Hat).

Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-cr-announce/2017-August/030953.html

Affected packages:
spice-server
spice-server-devel

Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2471