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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2018-6764: libvirt security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2018-6764: libvirt security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/23/2018
Created
04/22/2019
Added
04/02/2019
Modified
04/02/2019

Description

util/virlog.c in libvirt does not properly determine the hostname on LXC container startup, which allows local guest OS users to bypass an intended container protection mechanism and execute arbitrary commands via a crafted NSS module.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-libvirt
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-libvirt-client
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-libvirt-daemon
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-config-network
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-driver-interface
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-driver-network
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-driver-secret
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-driver-storage
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-kvm

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