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.
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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2014:222
https://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:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-7823
https://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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