Advisories » MGASA-2021-0405

Updated spice packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 15 Aug 2021
Modification date: 15 Aug 2021
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 8
CVE: CVE-2021-20201

Description

Updated spice packages fix security vulnerability:

A flaw was found in spice in versions before 0.14.92. A DoS tool might make
it easier for remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption)
by performing many renegotiations within a single connection
(CVE-2021-20201).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28947
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1924
• https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/security-announce@lists.opensuse.org/thread/AINSWYQLD5FH4GUOEP5FWWA5CMFHTUDX/
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-20201

SRPMS

8/core

• spice-0.14.3-3.1.mga8