[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: libvirt-0.5.1-2.fc9
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Sun Dec 21 08:18:01 UTC 2008
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-11433
2008-12-21 00:41:39
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Name : libvirt
Product : Fedora 9
Version : 0.5.1
Release : 2.fc9
URL : http://libvirt.org/
Summary : Library providing a simple API virtualization
Description :
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes).
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Update Information:
fix missing read-only access checks, fixes CVE-2008-5086 - upstream release
0.5.1 - mostly bugfixes e.g #473071 - some driver improvements
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ChangeLog:
* Wed Dec 17 2008 Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com> - 0.5.1-2.fc9
- fix missing read-only access checks, fixes CVE-2008-5086
* Fri Dec 5 2008 Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com> - 0.5.1-1.fc9
- upstream release 0.5.1
- mostly bugfixes e.g #473071
- some driver improvments
* Wed Nov 26 2008 Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com> - 0.5.0-1.fc9
- upstream release 0.5.0
- domain lifecycle event support
- node device enumeration
- KVM/QEmu migration support
- improved LXC support
- SDL display configuration
- User Mode Linux driver
* Wed Sep 24 2008 Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com> - 0.4.6-2.fc9
- a subtle bug in python submakefile broke the 0.4.6-1.fc9 build #463733
* Wed Sep 24 2008 Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com> - 0.4.6-1.fc9
- upstream release 0.4.6
- fixes a couple of serious bugs in the previous release
* Tue Sep 9 2008 Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com> - 0.4.5-2.fc9
- fix a crash if a QEmu/KVM domain is defined without an emulator path
* Mon Sep 8 2008 Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com> - 0.4.5-1.fc9
- upstream release 0.4.5
- a lot of bug fixes
- major updates to QEmu/KVM and Linux containers drivers
- support for OpenVZ if installed
* Tue Jul 8 2008 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> - 0.4.4-2.fc9
- Fix booting of CDROM images with KVM (rhbz #452355)
* Wed Jun 25 2008 Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com> - 0.4.4-1.fc9
- upstream release of 0.4.4
- fixes a few bug in previous release
* Thu Jun 12 2008 Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com> - 0.4.3-1.fc9
- upstream release 0.4.3
- many bug fixes
- many small improvements
- serious xenner fixes
* Wed Jun 4 2008 Mark McLoughlin <markmc at redhat.com> - 0.4.2-4.fc9
- Disable lokkit support again (#449996, #447633)
- Ensure PolicyKit is enabled (#446616)
* Fri May 9 2008 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> - 0.4.2-3.fc9
- Added directory for initrd/kernel images for SELinux policy
* Mon Apr 28 2008 Mark McLoughlin <markmc at redhat.com> - 0.4.2-2.fc9
- Enable lokkit support (#443796)
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #476560 - CVE-2008-5086 libvirt: missing checks for read-only connection
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476560
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update libvirt' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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