Fedora 13 : libvirt-0.8.2-6.fc13 (2011-4870)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 53479

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fix for CVE-2011-1486, error reporting in libvirtd is not thread safe Fix specfile to create /var/lib/libvirt with proper permissions. fix a lack of API check on read-only connections this build fix one crash in the the error handling fix a lack of API check on read-only connections

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=683650

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=693391

http://www.nessus.org/u?9ebc021c

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 53479

File Name: fedora_2011-4870.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/19/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Temporal Score: 6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libvirt, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:13

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/6/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1146, CVE-2011-1486

BID: 46820, 47148

FEDORA: 2011-4870