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Fedora 29: Security Update for Libvirt with NULL Dereference Issue

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Calendar Grey May 4, 2019
Dist Fedora Esm H88
A security update for Libvirt on Fedora 29 addresses a NULL pointer dereference and corrects problems with mouse cursors in QEMU VNC. See inside for more information.
* Mouse cursor doubled on QEMU VNC on ppc64le (bz #1565253) * CVE-2019-3840: NULL deref after running qemuAgentGetInterfaces (bz #1665229)

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.

* Mouse cursor doubled on QEMU VNC on ppc64le (bz #1565253) * CVE-2019-3840:

NULL deref after running qemuAgentGetInterfaces (bz #1665229)

* Tue Apr 2 2019 Cole Robinson - 4.7.0-2

- Mouse cursor doubled on QEMU VNC on ppc64le (bz #1565253)

- CVE-2019-3840: NULL deref after running qemuAgentGetInterfaces (bz

[ 1 ] Bug #1665228 - CVE-2019-3840 libvirt: NULL pointer dereference after running qemuAgentCommand in qemuAgentGetInterfaces function

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1665228

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-b3bfc61567' 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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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 29
Version: 4.7.0
Release: 2.fc29
Summary: Library providing a simple virtualization API

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