This ERRATA for SL 6.x i386/x86_64 is now available from: ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6x/i386/updates/security/ ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6x/x86_64/updates/security/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- SL 6.x SRPMS: libvirt-0.8.1-27.el6_0.5.src.rpm i386: libvirt-0.8.1-27.el6_0.5.i686.rpm libvirt-client-0.8.1-27.el6_0.5.i686.rpm libvirt-devel-0.8.1-27.el6_0.5.i686.rpm libvirt-python-0.8.1-27.el6_0.5.i686.rpm x86_64: libvirt-0.8.1-27.el6_0.5.x86_64.rpm libvirt-client-0.8.1-27.el6_0.5.i686.rpm libvirt-client-0.8.1-27.el6_0.5.x86_64.rpm libvirt-devel-0.8.1-27.el6_0.5.i686.rpm libvirt-devel-0.8.1-27.el6_0.5.x86_64.rpm libvirt-python-0.8.1-27.el6_0.5.x86_64.rpm -Connie Sieh -Troy Dawson