libvirt security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2013:1272 Updated libvirt packages that fix two security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring...

RHEL 6 : libvirt (RHSA-2013:1272)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2013:1272 advisory. The libvirt library is a C API for managing and interacting with the virtualization capabilities of Linux and other operating systems. In...

CentOS 6 : libvirt (CESA-2013:1272)

Updated libvirt packages that fix two security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity...

Scientific Linux Security Update : libvirt on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20130919)

libvirt invokes the PolicyKit pkcheck utility to handle authorization. A race condition was found in the way libvirt used this utility, allowing a local user to bypass intended PolicyKit authorizations or execute arbitrary commands with root privileges. CVE-2013-4311 Note: With this update, libvi...

Oracle Linux 6 : libvirt (ELSA-2013-1272)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2013-1272 advisory. - spec: Update requirements to pick up rebuilt polkit CVE-2013-4311 - spec: Fix messed up dependency on polkit CVE-2013-4311 - Add support for using...

libvirt: insecure calling of polkit

libvirt 1.0.5.x before 1.0.5.6, 0.10.2.x before 0.10.2.8, and 0.9.12.x before 0.9.12.2 allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a PolkitUnixProcess PolkitSubject race condition in pkcheck via a 1 setuid process or 2 pkexec process, a related issue to CVE-2013-4288...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: libvirt security and bug fix update

Updated libvirt packages that fix two security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity...

libvirt: invalid free in remoteDispatchDomainMemoryStats

The remoteDispatchDomainMemoryStats function in daemon/remote.c in libvirt 0.9.1 through 0.10.1.x, 0.10.2.x before 0.10.2.8, 1.0.x before 1.0.5.6, and 1.1.x before 1.1.2 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service uninitialized pointer dereference and crash via a crafted RPC ca...

libvirt security and bug fix update

0.10.2-18.0.1.el64.14 - Replace docs/et.png in tarball with blank image 0.10.2-18.el64.14 - spec: Update requirements to pick up rebuilt polkit CVE-2013-4311 0.10.2-18.el64.13 - spec: Fix messed up dependency on polkit CVE-2013-4311 0.10.2-18.el64.12 - Introduce APIs for splitting/joining strings...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 12.04 LTS / 12.10 / 13.04 : libvirt vulnerabilities (USN-1954-1)

It was discovered that libvirt used the pkcheck tool in an unsafe manner. A local attacker could possibly use this flaw to bypass polkit authentication. In Ubuntu, libvirt polkit authentication is not enabled by default. CVE-2013-4311 It was discovered that libvirt incorrectly handled certain...

USN-1954-1: libvirt vulnerabilities

It was discovered that libvirt used the pkcheck tool in an unsafe manner. A local attacker could possibly use this flaw to bypass polkit authentication. In Ubuntu, libvirt polkit authentication is not enabled by default. CVE-2013-4311 It was discovered that libvirt incorrectly handled certain...

CVE-2013-4311

libvirt 1.0.5.x before 1.0.5.6, 0.10.2.x before 0.10.2.8, and 0.9.12.x before 0.9.12.2 allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a PolkitUnixProcess PolkitSubject race condition in pkcheck via a 1 setuid process or 2 pkexec process, a related issue to CVE-2013-4288...

CVE-2013-4296

The remoteDispatchDomainMemoryStats function in daemon/remote.c in libvirt 0.9.1 through 0.10.1.x, 0.10.2.x before 0.10.2.8, 1.0.x before 1.0.5.6, and 1.1.x before 1.1.2 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service uninitialized pointer dereference and crash via a crafted RPC ca...

libxl partially sets up HVM passthrough even with disabled iommu

ISSUE DESCRIPTION With HVM domains, libxl's setup of PCI passthrough devices does the IOMMU setup after giving via the device model the guest access to the hardware and advertising it to the guest. If the IOMMU is disabled the overall setup fails, but after the device has been made available to t...

Security fix for the ALT Linux 8 package libvirt version 1.1.2-alt1

Sept. 3, 2013 Alexey Shabalin 1.1.2-alt1 - 1.1.2 - fixed CVE-2013-4291, CVE-2013-4292, CVE-2013-5651...

CVE-2013-5651

The virBitmapParse function in util/virbitmap.c in libvirt before 1.1.2 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds read and crash via a crafted bitmap, as demonstrated by a large nodeset value to numatune...

Security fix for the ALT Linux 8 package libvirt version 1.1.1-alt2

Aug. 26, 2013 Alexey Shabalin 1.1.1-alt2 - snapshot of v1.1.1-maint branch fixed CVE-2013-4239...

Fedora Update for heat-jeos FEDORA-2013-9715

Check for the Version of heat-jeos OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for heat-jeos FEDORA-2013-9715 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under th...

Security fix for the ALT Linux 8 package libvirt version 1.1.1-alt1

Aug. 8, 2013 Alexey Shabalin 1.1.1-alt1 - 1.1.1 - fixed CVE-2013-2230, CVE-2013-4153, CVE-2013-4154...

Oracle Linux 5 : libvirt (ELSA-2011-0478)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2011-0478 advisory. 0.8.2-15.0.1.el56.4 - Replaced docs/et.png in tarball 0.8.2-15.el56.4 - Make error reporting in libvirtd thread safe CVE-2011-1486 Tenable has extracted the...