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SUSE 11 SP2: 2013:0320-1 Important: Libvirt Privilege Escalation Risk

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Calendar Grey February 21, 2013
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A crucial update for libvirt on SUSE tackles a vulnerability that could permit remote privilege escalation. Apply the fix without delay!
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Summary

libvirt was updated to fix the following security issue: * A flaw was found in the way message freeing on connection cleanup was handled under certain error conditions. A remote user able to issue commands to libvirt daemon could use this flaw to crash libvirtd or, potentially, escalate their privilages to that of libvirtd process. (CVE-2013-0170) Also following bug has been fixed: * Add managedSave functions to legacy xen driver bnc#782311 Security Issue reference: * CVE-2013-0170 Indications: Everyone should install this update. Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP2:

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References

#782311 #800976

Cross- CVE-2013-0170

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0170.html

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2013:0320-1
Rating: important

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