vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2017-1000256: libvirt -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Oct 19, 2017
Added
Dec 5, 2017
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

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

debian-upgrade-libvirt
Title
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