This ERRATA for SL 5.x i386/x86_64 is now available from:
ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5x/i386/updates/security/ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5x/x86_64/updates/security/
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Synopsis: Important: libvirt security update
Issue date: 2011-03-29
CVE Names: CVE-2011-1146
It was found that several libvirt API calls did not honor the read-only
permission for connections. A local attacker able to establish a read-only
connection to libvirtd on a server could use this flaw to execute commands
that should be restricted to read-write connections, possibly leading to a
denial of service or privilege escalation. (CVE-2011-1146)
Note: Previously, using rpmbuild without the '--define "rhel 5"' option to
build the libvirt source RPM could failed with a "Failed build
dependencies" error for the device-mapper-devel package, as this -devel
sub-package may not be available. With this update, the -devel sub-package
is no longer checked by default as a dependency when building , allowing
the libvirt source RPM to build as expected.
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SL 5.x
SRPMS:
libvirt-0.8.2-15.el5_6.3.src.rpm
i386:
libvirt-0.8.2-15.el5_6.3.i386.rpm
libvirt-devel-0.8.2-15.el5_6.3.i386.rpm
libvirt-python-0.8.2-15.el5_6.3.i386.rpm
x86_64:
libvirt-0.8.2-15.el5_6.3.i386.rpm
libvirt-0.8.2-15.el5_6.3.x86_64.rpm
libvirt-devel-0.8.2-15.el5_6.3.i386.rpm
libvirt-devel-0.8.2-15.el5_6.3.x86_64.rpm
libvirt-python-0.8.2-15.el5_6.3.x86_64.rpm
-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson