Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1315-1 libvirt -- LTS security update

Date Reported:
24 Mar 2018
Affected Packages:
libvirt
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 887700.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-1064, CVE-2018-5748.
More information:

Daniel P. Berrange and Peter Krempa of Red Hat discovered a flaw in libvirt, a virtualization API. A lack of restriction for the amount of data read by QEMU Monitor socket can lead to a denial of service by exhaustion of memory resources.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 0.9.12.3-1+deb7u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your libvirt packages.

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS