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Red Hat update for libvirt


Secunia ID

SA50958

CVE-ID

CVE-2012-4423

Release Date

12 Oct 2012

Criticality

Less Critical

Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Where

From local network

Impact
DoS (Denial of Service)

This includes vulnerabilities ranging from excessive resource consumption (e.g. causing a system to use a lot of memory) to crashing an application or an entire system.

Description

Red Hat has issued an update for libvirt. This fixes a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

For more information:
SA50118

Solution

Updated packages are available via Red Hat Network.
https://rhn.redhat.com/

Original Advisory

RHSA-2012:1359-1:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1359.html