Fedora 22 Libvirt Security Update: Path Traversal and Disk Issues Fixed
fedora
January 8, 2016
* Rebased to version 1.2.13.2 * disk backend is not removed properly when disk frontent hotplug fails (bz #1265968) * Fix TPM cancel path on newer kernels (bz #1244895) * Remove ti...
Summary
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). The main package includes
the libvirtd server exporting the virtualization support.
Update Information:
* Rebased to version 1.2.13.2 * disk backend is not removed properly when disk frontent hotplug fails (bz #1265968) * Fix TPM cancel path on newer kernels (bz #1244895) * Remove timeout for libvirt-guests.service (bz #1195544) * CVE-2015-5313 libvirt: filesystem storage volume names path traversal flaw (bz #1291433) * Fix VM names with non-ascii (bz #1062943) * Fix backwards migration with graphics listen address (bz #1276883)
Topics Covered
Change Log
References
[ 1 ] Bug #1277121 - CVE-2015-5313 libvirt: filesystem storage volume names path traversal flaw
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1277121
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update libvirt' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .
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Name: libvirt
Product: Fedora 22
Version: 1.2.13.2
Release: 1.fc22
URL: https://libvirt.org/
Summary: Library providing a simple virtualization API
Topics Covered
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