gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201202-07.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201202-07">
  <title>libvirt: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities were found in libvirt, the worst of which
    might allow guest OS users to read arbitrary files on the host OS.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">libvirt</product>
  <announced>2012-02-27</announced>
  <revised count="1">2012-02-27</revised>
  <bug>358877</bug>
  <bug>372963</bug>
  <bug>373991</bug>
  <bug>386287</bug>
  <access>local, remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-emulation/libvirt" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.9.3-r1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.9.3-r1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>libvirt is a C toolkit to manipulate virtual machines.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libvirt. Please review
      the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>These vulnerabilities allow a remote attacker to cause a Denial of
      Service condition on the host server or libvirt daemon, or  might allow
      guest OS users to read arbitrary files on the host OS.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All libvirt users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-emulation/libvirt-0.9.3-r1"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-1146">CVE-2011-1146</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-1486">CVE-2011-1486</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-2178">CVE-2011-2178</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-2511">CVE-2011-2511</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata timestamp="2011-10-07T23:37:16Z" tag="requester">craig</metadata>
  <metadata timestamp="2012-02-27T22:20:05Z" tag="submitter">craig</metadata>
</glsa>