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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2014-222

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2014-222
Posted Nov 21, 2014
Authored by Mandriva | Site mandriva.com

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2014-222 - 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.

tags | advisory
systems | linux, mandriva
advisories | CVE-2014-7823
SHA-256 | b1e46fa67faacfb7e538c3ab47855727400c604063f8f1f9cdcbb61a33e35d27

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2014-222

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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2014:222
http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/
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Package : libvirt
Date : November 21, 2014
Affected: Business Server 1.0
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Problem Description:

Updated libvirt packages fix security vulnerability:

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).
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References:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-7823
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0470.html
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Updated Packages:

Mandriva Business Server 1/X86_64:
5ed33aeb5e6047ef2c44eaad86c5ab2c mbs1/x86_64/lib64virt0-1.1.3.8-1.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
95ef6a118a122f3788d70269711a1476 mbs1/x86_64/lib64virt-devel-1.1.3.8-1.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
660e0b7522f6d8fff06ec1a1bdd8128c mbs1/x86_64/libvirt-utils-1.1.3.8-1.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
65331217fc5523ca0c57bc4d5934bd7c mbs1/x86_64/python-libvirt-1.1.3.8-1.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
e4c2ee163616b3109e24e548872c323f mbs1/SRPMS/libvirt-1.1.3.8-1.mbs1.src.rpm
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To upgrade automatically use MandrivaUpdate or urpmi. The verification
of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

All packages are signed by Mandriva for security. You can obtain the
GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team by executing:

gpg --recv-keys --keyserver pgp.mit.edu 0x22458A98

You can view other update advisories for Mandriva Linux at:

http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/advisories/

If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact

security_(at)_mandriva.com
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Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID
pub 1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team
<security*mandriva.com>
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