Scientific Linux: CVE-2011-1486 Moderate: libvirt Security Update Details

Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 16:00:43 -0500
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From: Jason Harrington 
Organization: FNAL/CD/REX/SAG
Subject: Security ERRATA Moderate: libvirt on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis: Moderate: libvirt security update
Issue date: 2011-05-02
CVE Names: CVE-2011-1486

A flaw was found in the way libvirtd handled error reporting for concurrent
connections. A remote attacker able to establish read-only connections to
libvirtd on a server could use this flaw to crash libvirtd. (CVE-2011-1486)

libvirtd must be restarted ("service libvirtd restart")
for this update to take effect.

SL 5.x
 SRPMS:
 libvirt-0.8.2-15.el5_6.4.src.rpm

 i386:
 libvirt-0.8.2-15.el5_6.4.i386.rpm
 libvirt-devel-0.8.2-15.el5_6.4.i386.rpm
 libvirt-python-0.8.2-15.el5_6.4.i386.rpm

 x86_64:
 libvirt-0.8.2-15.el5_6.4.i386.rpm
 libvirt-0.8.2-15.el5_6.4.x86_64.rpm
 libvirt-devel-0.8.2-15.el5_6.4.i386.rpm
 libvirt-devel-0.8.2-15.el5_6.4.x86_64.rpm
 libvirt-python-0.8.2-15.el5_6.4.x86_64.rpm

SL 6.x
 SRPMS:
 libvirt-0.8.1-27.el6_0.6.src.rpm

 i386:
 libvirt-0.8.1-27.el6_0.6.i686.rpm
 libvirt-client-0.8.1-27.el6_0.6.i686.rpm
 libvirt-devel-0.8.1-27.el6_0.6.i686.rpm
 libvirt-python-0.8.1-27.el6_0.6.i686.rpm

 x86_64:
 libvirt-0.8.1-27.el6_0.6.x86_64.rpm
 libvirt-client-0.8.1-27.el6_0.6.i686.rpm
 libvirt-client-0.8.1-27.el6_0.6.x86_64.rpm
 libvirt-devel-0.8.1-27.el6_0.6.i686.rpm
 libvirt-devel-0.8.1-27.el6_0.6.x86_64.rpm
 libvirt-python-0.8.1-27.el6_0.6.x86_64.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team