Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2020-1547
Advisory Release Date: 2020-10-22 18:40 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2020-10-22 22:33 Pacific
Severity:
Important
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