libvirt security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2018:3113

The libvirt library contains a C API for managing and interacting with the virtualization capabilities of Linux and other operating systems. In addition, libvirt provides tools for remote management of virtualized systems.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: libvirt (4.5.0). (BZ#1563169)

Security Fix(es):

• libvirt: guest could inject executable code via libnss_dns.so loaded by libvirt_lxc before init (CVE-2018-6764)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-cr-announce/2018-December/032050.html

Affected packages:
libvirt
libvirt-admin
libvirt-bash-completion
libvirt-client
libvirt-daemon
libvirt-daemon-config-network
libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter
libvirt-daemon-driver-interface
libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc
libvirt-daemon-driver-network
libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev
libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter
libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu
libvirt-daemon-driver-secret
libvirt-daemon-driver-storage
libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-core
libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-disk
libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-gluster
libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-iscsi
libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-logical
libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-mpath
libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-rbd
libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-scsi
libvirt-daemon-kvm
libvirt-daemon-lxc
libvirt-devel
libvirt-docs
libvirt-libs
libvirt-lock-sanlock
libvirt-login-shell
libvirt-nss

Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3113