openSUSE 12.1: 2013:0274-1 Critical: libvirt Fixes for Two Issues
opensuse
February 12, 2013
An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has three An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has three An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has three fixes is now...
Description
libvirt was updated to fix some bugs and security issues:
Security issues fixed:
- Fix crash on error paths of message dispatching,
CVE-2013-0170 bnc#800976
- security: Fix libvirtd crash possibility CVE-2012-4423
bnc#780432
Also bugs were fixed:
- qemu: Fix probing for guest capabilities bnc#772586
- xen-xm: Generate UUID if not specified bnc#773626
- xenParseXM: don't dereference NULL pointer when script is
empty bnc#773621
Topics Covered
Patch
Patch Instructions:
To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
- openSUSE 12.1:
zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2013-105
To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".
Package List
- openSUSE 12.1 (i586 x86_64):
libvirt-0.9.6-3.13.1
libvirt-client-0.9.6-3.13.1
libvirt-client-debuginfo-0.9.6-3.13.1
libvirt-debuginfo-0.9.6-3.13.1
libvirt-debugsource-0.9.6-3.13.1
libvirt-devel-0.9.6-3.13.1
libvirt-doc-0.9.6-3.13.1
libvirt-python-0.9.6-3.13.1
libvirt-python-debuginfo-0.9.6-3.13.1
- openSUSE 12.1 (x86_64):
libvirt-client-32bit-0.9.6-3.13.1
libvirt-client-debuginfo-32bit-0.9.6-3.13.1
libvirt-devel-32bit-0.9.6-3.13.1
- openSUSE 12.1 (ia64):
libvirt-client-debuginfo-x86-0.9.6-3.13.1
libvirt-client-x86-0.9.6-3.13.1
References
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-4423.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0170.html
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2013:0274-1
Rating: important
Affected Products:
openSUSE 12.1
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