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Fedora 9 : libvirt-0.5.1-2.fc9 (2008-11433)

high Nessus Plugin ID 35228

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

fix missing read-only access checks, fixes CVE-2008-5086 - upstream release 0.5.1 - mostly bugfixes e.g #473071 - some driver improvements

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.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476560

http://www.nessus.org/u?36e6d742

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 35228

File Name: fedora_2008-11433.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/21/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:9, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libvirt

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/21/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-5086

FEDORA: 2008-11433