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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-1000256: libvirt TLS certificate verification disabled for clients

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-1000256: libvirt TLS certificate verification disabled for clients

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/31/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/22/2017
Modified
12/04/2019

Description

libvirt version 2.3.0 and later is vulnerable to a bad default configuration of "verify-peer=no" passed to QEMU by libvirt resulting in a failure to validate SSL/TLS certificates by default.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-libvirt

References

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