CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS
Percentile
92.6%
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2011:0427
The Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments (SPICE) is a
remote display protocol used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux for viewing
virtualized guests running on the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)
hypervisor, or on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor.
The spice-xpi package provides a plug-in that allows the SPICE client to
run from within Mozilla Firefox.
An uninitialized pointer use flaw was found in the SPICE Firefox plug-in.
If a user were tricked into visiting a malicious web page with Firefox
while the SPICE plug-in was enabled, it could cause Firefox to crash or,
possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running
Firefox. (CVE-2011-1179)
Users of spice-xpi should upgrade to this updated package, which contains a
backported patch to correct this issue. After installing the update,
Firefox must be restarted for the changes to take effect.
Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2011-April/079465.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2011-April/079466.html
Affected packages:
spice-xpi
Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011:0427
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
CentOS | 5 | i386 | spice-xpi | < 2.2-2.3.el5_6.1 | spice-xpi-2.2-2.3.el5_6.1.i386.rpm |
CentOS | 5 | x86_64 | spice-xpi | < 2.2-2.3.el5_6.1 | spice-xpi-2.2-2.3.el5_6.1.x86_64.rpm |