[ALSA-2021:1791] Moderate: spice-vdagent security and bug fix update
Type:
security
Severity:
moderate
Release date:
2021-11-12
Description:
The spice-vdagent packages provide a SPICE agent for Linux guests. Security Fix(es): * spice-vdagent: possible file transfer DoS and information leak via active_xfers hash map (CVE-2020-25651) * spice-vdagent: UNIX domain socket peer PID retrieved via SO_PEERCRED is subject to race condition (CVE-2020-25653) * spice-vdagent: memory DoS via arbitrary entries in active_xfers hash table (CVE-2020-25650) * spice-vdagent: possibility to exhaust file descriptors in vdagentd (CVE-2020-25652) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section. Additional Changes: For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.
Updated packages listed below:
Architecture Package Checksum
x86_64 spice-vdagent-0.20.0-3.el8.x86_64.rpm f2948e5fcead7704cc229f34fffe37c682b5a211312b3d3c86701889b5b6d3df
Notes:
This page is generated automatically from Red Hat security data and has not been checked for errors. For clarification or corrections please contact the AlmaLinux Packaging Team.