Advisories » MGASA-2014-0470

Updated libvirt packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 21 Nov 2014
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 3 , 4
CVE: CVE-2014-7823

Description

Eric Blake discovered that libvirt incorrectly handled permissions when
processing the qemuDomainFormatXML command. An attacker with read-only
privileges could possibly use this to gain access to certain information
from the domain xml file (CVE-2014-7823).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14529
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2404-1/
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-7823

SRPMS

3/core

• libvirt-1.0.2-8.7.mga3

4/core

• libvirt-1.2.1-1.3.mga4