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+Prevent possible DoS during protocol handshake.
+
+https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1399566
+https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9578
+https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9578
+https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9578
+
+Patch copied from upstream source repository:
+
+https://cgit.freedesktop.org/spice/spice/commit/?h=0.12&id=f66dc643635518e53dfbe5262f814a64eec54e4a
+
+From 1c6517973095a67c8cb57f3550fc1298404ab556 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Frediano Ziglio <fziglio@redhat.com>
+Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 14:39:48 +0000
+Subject: Prevent possible DoS attempts during protocol handshake
+
+diff --git a/server/reds.c b/server/reds.c
+index f40b65c..86a33d5 100644
+--- a/server/reds.c
++++ b/server/reds.c
+@@ -2202,7 +2202,8 @@ static void reds_handle_read_header_done(void *opaque)
+ 
+     reds->peer_minor_version = header->minor_version;
+ 
+-    if (header->size < sizeof(SpiceLinkMess)) {
++    /* the check for 4096 is to avoid clients to cause arbitrary big memory allocations */
++    if (header->size < sizeof(SpiceLinkMess) || header->size > 4096) {
+         reds_send_link_error(link, SPICE_LINK_ERR_INVALID_DATA);
+         spice_warning("bad size %u", header->size);
+         reds_link_free(link);
+-- 
+cgit v0.10.2
+