Issued:
2021-05-18
Updated:
2021-05-18

RHSA-2021:1924 - Low: spice security update

Synopsis

Low: spice security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Low

Topic

An update for spice is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

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):

  • spice: Client initiated renegotiation denial of service (CVE-2021-20201)

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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

All applications using SPICE (most notably all QEMU-KVM instances using the SPICE console) must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_648x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions8.8x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions8.6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions8.4x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support8.8x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support8.6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support8.4x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support Extension8.8x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support Extension8.6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support Extension8.4x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Life Cycle8.10x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 648aarch64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support8.8aarch64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support8.6aarch64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support8.4aarch64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Life Cycle8.10aarch64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS8.8x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS8.6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS8.4x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS8.6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS8.4x86_64
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_648x86_64
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 - Extended Update Support8.8x86_64
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 - Extended Update Support8.6x86_64
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 - Extended Update Support8.4x86_64
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 648aarch64
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support8.8aarch64
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support8.6aarch64
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support8.4aarch64

Updated Packages

  • spice-server-devel-0.14.3-4.el8.x86_64.rpm
  • spice-server-devel-0.14.3-4.el8.i686.rpm
  • spice-server-debuginfo-0.14.3-4.el8.x86_64.rpm
  • spice-debugsource-0.14.3-4.el8.i686.rpm
  • spice-server-0.14.3-4.el8.i686.rpm
  • spice-server-debuginfo-0.14.3-4.el8.aarch64.rpm
  • spice-server-devel-0.14.3-4.el8.aarch64.rpm
  • spice-server-0.14.3-4.el8.x86_64.rpm
  • spice-server-0.14.3-4.el8.aarch64.rpm
  • spice-debugsource-0.14.3-4.el8.aarch64.rpm
  • spice-0.14.3-4.el8.src.rpm
  • spice-debugsource-0.14.3-4.el8.x86_64.rpm
  • spice-server-debuginfo-0.14.3-4.el8.i686.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information