Synopsis: Low: hypervkvpd security and bug fix update Advisory ID: SLSA-2013:0807-1 Issue Date: 2013-05-09 CVE Numbers: CVE-2012-5532 -- A denial of service flaw was found in the way hypervkvpd processed certain Netlink messages. A local, unprivileged user in a guest (running on Microsoft Hyper-V) could send a Netlink message that, when processed, would cause the guest's hypervkvpd daemon to exit. (CVE-2012-5532) This update also fixes the following bug: * The hypervkvpd daemon did not close the file descriptors for pool files when they were updated. This could eventually lead to hypervkvpd crashing with a "KVP: Failed to open file, pool: 1" error after consuming all available file descriptors. With this update, the file descriptors are closed, correcting this issue. After installing the update, it is recommended to reboot all guest machines. -- SL5 x86_64 hypervkvpd-0-0.7.el5_9.3.x86_64.rpm hypervkvpd-debuginfo-0-0.7.el5_9.3.x86_64.rpm i386 hypervkvpd-0-0.7.el5_9.3.i686.rpm hypervkvpd-debuginfo-0-0.7.el5_9.3.i686.rpm - Scientific Linux Development Team