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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.63012
Category:Fedora Local Security Checks
Title:Fedora Core 10 FEDORA-2008-11443 (libvirt)
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

The remote host is missing an update to libvirt
announced via advisory FEDORA-2008-11443.

Update Information:

fix missing read-only access checks, fixes CVE-2008-5086 - upstream release
0.5.1 - mostly bugfixes e.g #473071 - some driver improvements
ChangeLog:

* Wed Dec 17 2008 Daniel Veillard - 0.5.1-2.fc10
- fix missing read-only access checks, fixes CVE-2008-5086
* Fri Dec 5 2008 Daniel Veillard - 0.5.1-1.fc10
- upstream release 0.5.1
- mostly bugfixes e.g #473071
- some driver improvments

References:

[ 1 ] Bug #476560 - CVE-2008-5086 libvirt: missing checks for read-only connection
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476560

Solution: Apply the appropriate updates.

This update can be installed with the yum update program. Use
su -c 'yum update libvirt' at the command line.
For more information, refer to Managing Software with yum,
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FEDORA-2008-11443

Risk factor : High

CVSS Score:
7.2

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-5086
32905
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32905
33198
http://secunia.com/advisories/33198
33217
http://secunia.com/advisories/33217
33292
http://secunia.com/advisories/33292
34397
http://secunia.com/advisories/34397
50919
http://osvdb.org/50919
FEDORA-2008-11433
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg00938.html
RHSA-2009:0382
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0382.html
SUSE-SR:2009:004
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00002.html
USN-694-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-694-1
[libvirt] 20081217 [SECURITY] PATCH: Fix missing read-only access checks (CVE-2008-5086)
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2008-December/msg00522.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476560
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8765
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8765
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