Scientific Linux: 2011-03-29 Important Libvirt Update for SL6.x

Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 17:03:22 -0500
Reply-To: Connie Sieh 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Connie Sieh 
Subject: Security ERRATA Important: libvirt on SL6.x i386/x86_64
Comments: To: scientific 
MIME-Version: 1.0

This ERRATA for SL 6.x i386/x86_64 is now available from:

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Synopsis: Important: libvirt security update
Issue date: 2011-03-29
CVE Names: CVE-2011-1146

It was found that several libvirt API calls did not honor the read-only
permission for connections. A local attacker able to establish a read-only
connection to libvirtd on a server could use this flaw to execute commands
that should be restricted to read-write connections, possibly leading to a
denial of service or privilege escalation. (CVE-2011-1146)

Note: Previously, using rpmbuild without the '--define "rhel 5"' option to
build the libvirt source RPM could failed with a "Failed build dependencies"
error for the device-mapper-devel package, as this -devel sub-package may not
be available. With this update, the -devel sub-package is no longer checked by
default as a dependency when building, allowing the libvirt source RPM to
build as expected.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- SL
6.x

SRPMS:

 	libvirt-0.8.1-27.el6_0.5.src.rpm

i386:

 	libvirt-0.8.1-27.el6_0.5.i686.rpm
 	libvirt-client-0.8.1-27.el6_0.5.i686.rpm
 	libvirt-devel-0.8.1-27.el6_0.5.i686.rpm
 	libvirt-python-0.8.1-27.el6_0.5.i686.rpm

x86_64:

 	libvirt-0.8.1-27.el6_0.5.x86_64.rpm
 	libvirt-client-0.8.1-27.el6_0.5.i686.rpm
 	libvirt-client-0.8.1-27.el6_0.5.x86_64.rpm
 	libvirt-devel-0.8.1-27.el6_0.5.i686.rpm
 	libvirt-devel-0.8.1-27.el6_0.5.x86_64.rpm
 	libvirt-python-0.8.1-27.el6_0.5.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson