glsa-201804-07.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201804-07">
  <title>libvirt: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libvirt, the worst
    of which may result in the execution of arbitrary commands.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">libvirt</product>
  <announced>2018-04-08</announced>
  <revised count="1">2018-04-08</revised>
  <bug>647338</bug>
  <bug>650018</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-emulation/libvirt" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">4.1.0</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">4.1.0</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>libvirt is a C toolkit for manipulating virtual machines.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libvirt. Please review
      the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A local privileged attacker could execute arbitrary commands or cause a
      Denial of Service condition.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All libvirt users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-emulation/libvirt-4.1.0"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-5748">CVE-2018-5748</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6764">CVE-2018-6764</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2018-04-08T17:45:31Z">chrisadr</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2018-04-08T23:28:32Z">b-man</metadata>
</glsa>