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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2846-1 libvirt -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:

17 Jan 2014

Affected Packages:

libvirt

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2013-6458, CVE-2014-1447.

More information:

Multiple security issues have been found in Libvirt, a virtualisation abstraction library:

• CVE-2013-6458

  It was discovered that insecure job usage could lead to denial of service against libvirtd.

• CVE-2014-1447

  It was discovered that a race condition in keepalive handling could lead to denial of service against libvirtd.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 0.9.12.3-1. This bugfix point release also addresses some additional bugfixes.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.2.1-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libvirt packages.