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virt-v2v: privilege escalation

Package(s):virt-v2v CVE #(s):CVE-2011-1773
Created:December 7, 2011 Updated:December 16, 2011
Description: From the Red Hat advisory: Using virt-v2v to convert a guest that has a password-protected VNC console to a KVM guest removed that password protection from the converted guest: after conversion, a password was not required to access the converted guest's VNC console.
Alerts:
Scientific Linux SL-virt-20111206 2011-12-06
Red Hat RHSA-2011:1615-03 2011-12-06
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