Security Advisory SA44965 - SUSE update for libvirt

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Secunia Advisory SA44965

SUSE update for libvirt

Secunia Advisory

SA44965

Release Date

2011-06-16

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Criticality level

Less critical

Impact

Security Bypass

Where

Local system

Authentication level

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Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Systems affected

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Operating System

openSUSE 11.4

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CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2011-2178 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

SUSE has issued an update for libvirt. This fixes a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious, local users in a guest system to bypass certain security restrictions.

For more information:
SA40758

Solution
Apply updated packages via the zypper package manager.
Original Advisory
openSUSE-SU-2011:0643-1:
https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/8795083

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