Bug 1313496 (CVE-2016-2150) - CVE-2016-2150 spice: Host memory access from guest with invalid primary surface parameters
Summary: CVE-2016-2150 spice: Host memory access from guest with invalid primary surfa...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2016-2150
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1316491 1316492 1316493 1316495 1343135
Blocks: 1313499
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Reported: 2016-03-01 17:26 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2021-02-17 04:15 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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A memory access flaw was found in the way spice handled certain guests using crafted primary surface parameters. A user in a guest could use this flaw to read from and write to arbitrary memory locations on the host.
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Last Closed: 2016-12-09 06:24:32 UTC

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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:1204 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: spice-server security update 2016-06-06 19:55:10 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:1205 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: spice security update 2016-06-06 19:55:01 UTC

Description Adam Mariš 2016-03-01 17:26:03 UTC 
It was found that one malicious guest inside a virtual machine can take control of the corresponding Qemu process in the host using crafted primary surface parameters. This issue is similar to CVE-2015-5261, but it's using different path in the code.
Comment 4 Martin Prpič 2016-06-01 08:37:41 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: Frediano Ziglio (Red Hat)
Comment 5 Stefan Cornelius 2016-06-06 15:16:56 UTC 
Created spice tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1343135]
Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2016-06-06 15:55:31 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2016:1205 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1205
Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2016-06-06 15:55:57 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2016:1204 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1204
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