USN-1094-1: Libvirt vulnerability

Publication date

29 March 2011

Overview

An attacker could send crafted input to libvirt and cause it to crash.


Packages

  • libvirt - Libvirt virtualization toolkit

Details

Petr Matousek discovered that libvirt did not always honor read-only
connections. An attacker who is authorized to connect to the libvirt daemon
could exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash.

Petr Matousek discovered that libvirt did not always honor read-only
connections. An attacker who is authorized to connect to the libvirt daemon
could exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash.

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
9.10 karmic libvirt0 –  0.7.0-1ubuntu13.3
10.10 maverick libvirt0 –  0.8.3-1ubuntu14.1
10.04 lucid libvirt0 –  0.7.5-5ubuntu27.9

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