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Fedora 18 : libvirt-0.10.2.3-1.fc18 (2013-1644)

high Nessus Plugin ID 64477

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Rebased to version 0.10.2.3

 - Fix libxl driver to build against xen 4.2 (bz #870689)

 - Fix possible crash when destroying guests (bz #877110)

 - Fix loading sysctl file (bz #887017)

 - Fix svirt memory leak (bz #890039)

 - Fix attaching PCI netdev to VM (bz #893131)

 - Fix libvirtd segfault on shutdown (bz #903184)

 - Raise mem limit to stop qemu processes from getting OOM killed (bz #903432)

 - CVE-2013-0170 libvirt: use-after-free in virNetMessageFree() (bz #893450, bz #905173)

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=893450

http://www.nessus.org/u?f930a4a9

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 64477

File Name: fedora_2013-1644.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/6/2013

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: 9.3

Temporal Score: 8.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:18, 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: 1/29/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-0170

BID: 57578

FEDORA: 2013-1644