[SECURITY] [DSA 2280-1] libvirt security update

Debian Security Advisory DSA-2280-1 [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/ Steffen Joeris
July 19, 2011 http://www.debian.org/security/faq

Package : libvirt
Vulnerability : several
Problem type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE IDs : CVE-2011-2511 CVE-2011-1486
Debian Bugs : 633630 623222

It was discovered that libvirt, a library for interfacing with different
virtualization systems, is prone to an integer overflow (CVE-2011-2511).
Additionally, the stable version is prone to a denial of service,
because its error reporting is not thread-safe (CVE-2011-1486).

For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in
version 0.8.3-5+squeeze2.

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.4.6-10+lenny2.

For the testing distribution (wheezy), these problems will fixed soon.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 0.9.2-7).

We recommend that you upgrade your libvirt packages.

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