Fedora 16 : libvirt-0.9.6-4.fc16 (2011-17267)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 57437

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This release of libvirt fixes a minor security problem with extraneous iptables rules being added when an externally managed network (new feature in 0.9.4) exists, along with several bugfixes. Another important change in this release is code to automatically convert guest definitions containing the deprecated 'fedora-13' machine type over to 'pc-0.14' - support for the 'fedora-13' machine type will be removed from qemu in Fedora 17, so all guests will need to be reconfigured before that time; the code in this update handles the reconfiguration automatically.

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=738725

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=754772

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=754909

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=757382

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=758896

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=761329

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=766104

http://www.nessus.org/u?ee12c63a

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 57437

File Name: fedora_2011-17267.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/6/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libvirt, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:16

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/22/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-4600

FEDORA: 2011-17267