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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 201804-07
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Severity: Normal
Title: libvirt: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: April 08, 2018
Bugs: #647338, #650018
ID: 201804-07

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Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libvirt, the worst of
which may result in the execution of arbitrary commands.

Background
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libvirt is a C toolkit for manipulating virtual machines.

Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 app-emulation/libvirt < 4.1.0 >= 4.1.0

Description
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libvirt. Please review
the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact
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A local privileged attacker could execute arbitrary commands or cause a
Denial of Service condition.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All libvirt users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge –sync
# emerge –ask –oneshot –verbose “>=app-emulation/libvirt-4.1.0”

References
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[ 1 ] CVE-2018-5748
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-5748
[ 2 ] CVE-2018-6764
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6764

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-07

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users’ machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
https://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2018 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons – Attribution / Share Alike license.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5
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