An attacker could send crafted input to libvirt and cause it to crash.
Petr Matousek discovered that libvirt did not always honor read-only connections. An attacker who is authorized to connect to the libvirt daemon could exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash.
29 March 2011
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
An attacker could send crafted input to libvirt and cause it to crash.
Petr Matousek discovered that libvirt did not always honor read-only connections. An attacker who is authorized to connect to the libvirt daemon could exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
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