RHSA-2016:1204High

Red Hat Security Advisory: spice-server security update

Published
June 6, 2016
Last Modified
November 5, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (2)

CVE-2016-0749 →CVE-2016-2150 →

📋 Description

CVE-2016-0749 — spice: heap-based memory corruption within smartcard handling CVE-2016-2150 — spice: Host memory access from guest with invalid primary surface parameters

🎯 Affected products28

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6)
  • spice-server-0:0.12.4-13.el6.1.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • spice-server-0:0.12.4-13.el6.1.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6)
  • spice-server-0:0.12.4-13.el6.1.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • spice-server-0:0.12.4-13.el6.1.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
  • spice-server-0:0.12.4-13.el6.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • spice-server-0:0.12.4-13.el6.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6)
  • spice-server-0:0.12.4-13.el6.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • spice-server-0:0.12.4-13.el6.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
  • spice-server-debuginfo-0:0.12.4-13.el6.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • spice-server-debuginfo-0:0.12.4-13.el6.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6)
  • spice-server-debuginfo-0:0.12.4-13.el6.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6)
  • spice-server-debuginfo-0:0.12.4-13.el6.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6)
  • spice-server-debuginfo-0:0.12.4-13.el6.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • spice-server-debuginfo-0:0.12.4-13.el6.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6)
  • spice-server-debuginfo-0:0.12.4-13.el6.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
  • spice-server-debuginfo-0:0.12.4-13.el6.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6)
  • spice-server-devel-0:0.12.4-13.el6.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6)
  • spice-server-devel-0:0.12.4-13.el6.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6)
  • spice-server-devel-0:0.12.4-13.el6.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6)
  • spice-server-devel-0:0.12.4-13.el6.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6)

✅ Remediation

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 Applications acting as a SPICE server must be restarted for this update to take effect. Note that QEMU-KVM guests providing SPICE console access must be restarted for this update to take effect.

🔗 References (5)