Mageia alert MGASA-2014-0470 (libvirt)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2014-0470: Updated libvirt packages fix security vulnerability 
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Fri, 21 Nov 2014 13:44:51 +0100
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MGASA-2014-0470 - Updated libvirt packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 21 Nov 2014
URL: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0470.html

Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 3, 4
CVE: CVE-2014-7823

Description:
Eric Blake discovered that libvirt incorrectly handled permissions when
processing the qemuDomainFormatXML command. An attacker with read-only
privileges could possibly use this to gain access to certain information
from the domain xml file (CVE-2014-7823).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14529

- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2404-1/

- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-7823


SRPMS:
- 4/core/libvirt-1.2.1-1.3.mga4
- 3/core/libvirt-1.0.2-8.7.mga3