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Gentoo: GLSA-201412-04 High Severity: Privilege Escalation DoS in libvirt

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Various vulnerabilities in libvirt present risks of privilege escalation and Denial of Service; it is advisable to perform an upgrade.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in libvirt, worst of which allows context-dependent attackers to escalate privileges.

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libvirt. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

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Topics Covered

security advisory high severity privilege escalation Denial of Service libvirt

Resolution

All libvirt users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-emulation/libvirt-1.2.9-r2"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2013-4292 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-4292 [ 2 ] CVE-2013-4296 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-4296 [ 3 ] CVE-2013-4297 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-4297 [ 4 ] CVE-2013-4399 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-4399 [ 5 ] CVE-2013-4400 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-4400 [ 6 ] CVE-2013-4401 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-4401 [ 7 ] CVE-2013-5651 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-5651 [ 8 ] CVE-2013-6436 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-6436 [ 9 ] CVE-2013-6456 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-6456 [ 10 ] CVE-2013-6457 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-6457 [ 11 ] CVE-2013-6458 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-6458 [ 12 ] CVE-2013-7336 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-7336 [ 13 ] CVE-2014-0028 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvena...

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Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201412-04
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: High
Title: libvirt: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: December 08, 2014
Bugs: #483048, #484014, #485520, #487684, #489374, #494072,
ID: 201412-04

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Topics Covered

security advisory high severity privilege escalation Denial of Service libvirt

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in libvirt, worst of which allows context-dependent attackers to escalate privileges.

Background

libvirt is a C toolkit for manipulating virtual machines.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-emulation/libvirt < 1.2.9-r2 >= 1.2.9-r2

Impact

===== A remote attacker may be able to cause a Denial of Service or cause information leakage. A local attacker may be able to escalate privileges, cause a Denial of Service or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.