Fedora 17 : libvirt-0.9.11.5-3.fc17 (2012-12523)

low Nessus Plugin ID 61779

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Rebased to version 0.9.11.5

- CVE-2012-3445 crash in virTypedParameterArrayClear (bz 844734)

- Fix libvirt-guests (bz 843836)

- Fix occasional loss of domain events in boxes (bz 819617)

- Drop bogus daemon dep additions (bz 849159)

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=844734

http://www.nessus.org/u?fe4a06da

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 61779

File Name: fedora_2012-12523.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/5/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.5

Temporal Score: 3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:17, 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: 8/22/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-3445

BID: 54748

FEDORA: 2012-12523