Issued:
2013-09-19
Updated:
2013-09-19

RHSA-2013:1273 - Important: spice-gtk security update

Synopsis

Important: spice-gtk security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

Updated spice-gtk packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

Description

The spice-gtk packages provide a GIMP Toolkit (GTK+) widget for SPICE (Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments) clients. Both Virtual Machine Manager and Virtual Machine Viewer can make use of this widget to access virtual machines using the SPICE protocol.

spice-gtk communicated with PolicyKit for authorization via an API that is vulnerable to a race condition. This could lead to intended PolicyKit authorizations being bypassed. This update modifies spice-gtk to communicate with PolicyKit via a different API that is not vulnerable to the race condition. (CVE-2013-4324)

All users of spice-gtk are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Storage for Public Cloud (via RHUI)2.1x86_64
Red Hat Gluster Storage Server for On-premise2.1x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support6.4x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support6.4i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Retired Extended Life Cycle Support6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI6.4x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI6.4i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS6.4x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node6.4x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6i386

Updated Packages

  • spice-gtk-debuginfo-0.14-7.el6_4.3.i686.rpm
  • spice-glib-0.14-7.el6_4.3.i686.rpm
  • spice-gtk-devel-0.14-7.el6_4.3.x86_64.rpm
  • spice-gtk-0.14-7.el6_4.3.i686.rpm
  • spice-gtk-0.14-7.el6_4.3.src.rpm
  • spice-glib-devel-0.14-7.el6_4.3.x86_64.rpm
  • spice-gtk-python-0.14-7.el6_4.3.i686.rpm
  • spice-gtk-debuginfo-0.14-7.el6_4.3.x86_64.rpm
  • spice-gtk-devel-0.14-7.el6_4.3.i686.rpm
  • spice-gtk-tools-0.14-7.el6_4.3.x86_64.rpm
  • spice-gtk-tools-0.14-7.el6_4.3.i686.rpm
  • spice-gtk-0.14-7.el6_4.3.x86_64.rpm
  • spice-glib-devel-0.14-7.el6_4.3.i686.rpm
  • spice-glib-0.14-7.el6_4.3.x86_64.rpm
  • spice-gtk-python-0.14-7.el6_4.3.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information