Oval Definition:oval:com.redhat.rhsa:def:20110478
Revision Date:2011-05-02Version:641
Title:RHSA-2011:0478: libvirt security update (Moderate)
Description:The libvirt library is a C API for managing and interacting with the virtualization capabilities of Linux and other operating systems. In addition, libvirt provides tools for remotely managing virtualized systems.

  • 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)

    All libvirt users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve this issue. After installing the updated packages, libvirtd must be restarted ("service libvirtd restart") for this update to take effect.
  • Family:unixClass:patch
    Status:Reference(s):CVE-2011-1486
    RHSA-2011:0478
    RHSA-2011:0478-01
    RHSA-2011:0478-01
    Platform(s):Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
    Product(s):
    Definition Synopsis
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux must be installed
  • OR Package Information
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is installed
  • AND
  • libvirt is earlier than 0:0.8.2-15.el5_6.4
  • AND libvirt is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • libvirt-devel is earlier than 0:0.8.2-15.el5_6.4
  • AND libvirt-devel is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • libvirt-python is earlier than 0:0.8.2-15.el5_6.4
  • AND libvirt-python is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
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