Fedora 27: libvirt Security Update - Critical Resource Exhaustion Fix

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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