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Fedora 27: Resource Exhaustion and Code Injection Risks in libvirt

fedora
Calendar Grey March 1, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
New security patch released for Fedora 27 to mitigate resource depletion and remote code execution risks found in libvirt.
* CVE-2018-5748: resource exhaustion via qemuMonitorIORead() (bz #1535785) * CVE-2018-6764: code injection via libvirt_lxc (bz #1542815) * Fix hotplug disk failure (bz #1540872)

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-2018-5748: resource exhaustion via qemuMonitorIORead() (bz #1535785) *

CVE-2018-6764: code injection via libvirt_lxc (bz #1542815) * Fix hotplug disk

failure (bz #1540872)

[ 1 ] Bug #1528396 - CVE-2018-5748 Libvirt: resource exhaustion via qemuMonitorIORead() method

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1528396

[ 2 ] Bug #1541444 - CVE-2018-6764 libvirt: guest could inject executable code via libnss_dns.so loaded by libvirt_lxc before init

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1541444

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

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Product: Fedora 27
Version: 3.7.0
Release: 4.fc27
Summary: Library providing a simple virtualization API

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