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Posted on 17 January 2014
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-2846-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff
January 17, 2014 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : libvirt
Vulnerability : several
Problem type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CVE-2013-6458 CVE-2014-1447
Multiple security issues have been found in Libvirt, a virtualisation
abstraction library:
CVE-2013-6458
It was discovered that insecure job usage could lead to denial of
service against libvirtd.
CVE-2014-1447
It was discovered that a race condition in keepalive handling could
lead to denial of service against libvirtd.
For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in
version 0.9.12.3-1. This bugfix point release also addresses some
additional bugfixes.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.2.1-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your libvirt packages.
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: http://www.debian.org/security/
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org