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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.69330
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-2194-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'libvirt' package(s) announced via the DSA-2194-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'libvirt' package(s) announced via the DSA-2194-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
It was discovered that libvirt, a library for interfacing with different virtualization systems, did not properly check for read-only connections. This allowed a local attacker to perform a denial of service (crash) or possibly escalate privileges.

The oldstable distribution (lenny) is not affected by this problem.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 0.8.3-5+squeeze1.

For the testing distribution (wheezy), this problem will be fixed soon.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.8.8-3.

We recommend that you upgrade your libvirt packages.

Affected Software/OS:
'libvirt' package(s) on Debian 6.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
6.9

CVSS Vector:
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2011-1146
1025262
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025262
43670
http://secunia.com/advisories/43670
43780
http://secunia.com/advisories/43780
43897
http://secunia.com/advisories/43897
43917
http://secunia.com/advisories/43917
44069
http://secunia.com/advisories/44069
46820
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46820
ADV-2011-0694
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0694
ADV-2011-0700
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0700
ADV-2011-0794
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0794
ADV-2011-0805
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0805
DSA-2194
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2194
FEDORA-2011-3286
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056209.html
RHSA-2011:0391
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0391.html
USN-1094-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1094-1
[oss-security] 20110309 CVE request: libvirt: several API calls do not honour read-only connection
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/09/3
[oss-security] 20110310 Re: CVE request: libvirt: several API calls do not honour read-only connection
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/10/5
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=617773
http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=71753cb7f7a16ff800381c0b5ee4e99eea92fed3
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678406
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=683650
libvirt-apicalls-dos(66012)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66012
openSUSE-SU-2011:0311
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-04/msg00022.html
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