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HistoryJun 10, 2013 - 12:00 a.m.

(RHSA-2013:0924) Important: spice-vdagent-win security and bug fix update

2013-06-1000:00:00
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0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%

spice-vdagent-win provides a service and an agent that can be installed and
run on Windows guests.

An unquoted search path flaw was found in the way the SPICE service was
installed on Windows. Depending on the permissions of the directories in
the unquoted search path, a local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to
have a binary of their choosing executed with SYSTEM privileges.
(CVE-2013-2152)

This update also fixes the following bugs:

  • Previously, due to issues with some Windows guest applications, RHEV
    SPICE agent stopped getting clipboard changes. Now, the agent uses a new
    API that keeps track of clipboard changes, without the need to “trust” the
    behavior of other applications registered to the clipboard. (BZ#919451)

  • Previously, copying a .jpg or .png image file from specific applications,
    such as Mozilla Firefox, on a Windows guest, then pasting into a Linux
    client, resulted in an empty or black and white image due to incorrect
    pallete encoding in the guest vdagent. Now, the encoding has been fixed and
    copying and pasting works as expected. (BZ#919150)

  • Previously, when using a Windows virtual machine, enabling extra monitors
    with arbitrary configuration could fail. Now the agent enables the monitors
    before updating it to an arbitrary resolution to solve this issue.
    (BZ#922394)

  • Previously, if SPICE was disconnected in the middle of copying and
    pasting data from the client to the guest, copy and paste would stop
    working after SPICE was reconnected. Now, the clipboard timeout has been
    adjusted so that if SPICE is unexpectedly disconnected, the immediate copy
    and paste action will fail, but subsequent attempts will be successful.
    (BZ#833835)

  • Previously, when attempting to connect multiple displays using a Windows
    7 guest, remote-viewer would only show one display available, even when all
    settings in the manager and on the SPICE client itself were correctly
    configured. This was caused by a regression issue relating to changes to
    custom resolution commands. Now, connecting and displaying multiple
    monitors functions correctly. (BZ#922283)

  • Previously, due to a regression caused by another patch, copying a .png
    image from specific applications, such as Firefox, on a Linux client,
    failed pasting into a Windows guest application, such as Paint, due to
    incorrect pallete encoding in the guest vdagent. Now, the encoding has been
    fixed and copying and pasting works as expected. (BZ#921980)

  • Previously, when a second user logged into a Windows guest, the RHEV
    SPICE Agent service terminated the previous vdagent instance, but
    mistakenly also the newly created vdagent on the current active session.
    Now, the vdagent termination event is reset after previous agent
    termination, so each new agent is no longer terminated. (BZ#868254)

  • Previously, if “RHEV SPICE agent” was stopped after copying data from a
    Windows guest, the client was not correctly notified, and assumed it could
    still paste the data. Now, agent termination has been fixed so that the
    client is notified to release the clipboard. (BZ#903379)

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%