Fedora 17 : libvirt-0.9.11.6-1.fc17 (2012-15634)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 62551

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Rebased to version 0.9.11.6

- Fix LXC domain startup with selinux=disabled (bz #858104)

- CVE-2012-4423 Fix null dereference (bz #857135, bz #857133)

- dnsmasq: avoid forwarding queries without a domain (bz #849787)

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=857133

http://www.nessus.org/u?63c65bea

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 62551

File Name: fedora_2012-15634.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/16/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/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: 10/8/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-4423

BID: 55541

FEDORA: 2012-15634