Fedora 18 : libvirt-0.10.2.8-1.fc18 (2013-17305)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 70235

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Rebased to version 0.10.2.8

- CVE-2013-4311: Insecure polkit usage (bz #1009539, bz #1005332)

- CVE-2013-4296: Invalid free memory stats (bz #1006173, bz #1009667)

- CVE-2013-4291: Supplementary groups handling (bz #1006509, bz #1006511)

- Fix LXC container creation if selinux disabled (bz #977114)

- Fix virsh change-media with block disk type (bz #951192)

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=1005332

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1006173

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1006509

http://www.nessus.org/u?0e7ab2cb

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 70235

File Name: fedora_2013-17305.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/1/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.3

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:18

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/21/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4291, CVE-2013-4296, CVE-2013-4311

BID: 62508, 62510

FEDORA: 2013-17305