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Fedora 26: Important Security Update for libvirt TLS Vulnerability

fedora
Calendar Grey January 3, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Important patch for Fedora 26 rectifying the TLS cert validation problem within libvirt. Update immediately to maintain protection.
* CVE-2017-1000256: libvirt: TLS certificate verification disabled for clients (bz #1503687)

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.

* CVE-2017-1000256: libvirt: TLS certificate verification disabled for clients

(bz #1503687)

[ 1 ] Bug #1503658 - CVE-2017-1000256 libvirt: TLS certificate verification disabled for clients

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1503658

su -c 'dnf upgrade libvirt' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 26
Version: 3.2.1
Release: 7.fc26
Summary: Library providing a simple virtualization API

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