Debian: DSA-2281-1 Critical: Libvirt Memory Leak And DoS Vulnerability
debian
July 19, 2011
It was discovered that libvirt, a library for interfacing with different virtualization systems, is prone to an integer overflow (CVE-2011-2511)
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Summary
For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in
version 0.8.3-5+squeeze2.
For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.4.6-10+lenny2.
For the testing distribution (wheezy), these problems will fixed soon.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 0.9.2-7).
We recommend that you upgrade your libvirt packages.
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Package: libvirt
CVE IDs: CVE-2011-2511 CVE-2011-1486
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