Fedora 15 : libvirt-0.8.8-4.fc15 (2011-4964)

low Nessus Plugin ID 53455

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fix for CVE-2011-1486, error reporting in libvirtd is not thread safe

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=693391

http://www.nessus.org/u?cafc576e

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 53455

File Name: fedora_2011-4964.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/18/2011

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: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Temporal Score: 2.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:15, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libvirt

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/7/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1486

BID: 47148

FEDORA: 2011-4964