Fedora 21 : libvirt-1.2.9.2-1.fc21 (2015-1892)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 81365

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Rebased to version 1.2.9.2

- CVE-2014-8131: deadlock and segfault in qemuConnectGetAllDomainStats (bz #1172571)

- CVE-2015-0236: missing ACL check for the VIR_DOMAIN_XML_SECURE flag in save images and snapshots objects (bz #1185769)

- CVE-2014-8136: local denial of service in qemu/qemu_driver.c (bz #1176179)

- Fix crash parsing nbd URIs (bz #1188644)

- Fix domain startup failing with 'strict' mode in numatune (bz #1168672)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected libvirt package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 81365

File Name: fedora_2015-1892.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 2/16/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:21, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libvirt

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 2/9/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-8131, CVE-2014-8136, CVE-2015-0236

FEDORA: 2015-1892

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