[SECURITY] Fedora 10 Update: libvirt-0.5.1-2.fc10

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-11443
2008-12-21 00:41:51
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Name        : libvirt
Product     : Fedora 10
Version     : 0.5.1
Release     : 2.fc10
URL         : http://libvirt.org/
Summary     : Library providing a simple API virtualization
Description :
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes).

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Update Information:

fix missing read-only access checks, fixes CVE-2008-5086  - upstream release
0.5.1  - mostly bugfixes e.g #473071  - some driver improvements
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Dec 17 2008 Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com> - 0.5.1-2.fc10
- fix missing read-only access checks, fixes CVE-2008-5086
* Fri Dec  5 2008 Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com> - 0.5.1-1.fc10
- upstream release 0.5.1
- mostly bugfixes e.g #473071
- some driver improvments
* Wed Nov 26 2008 Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com> - 0.5.0-1.fc10
- upstream release 0.5.0
- domain lifecycle event support
- node device enumeration
- KVM/QEmu migration support
- improved LXC support
- SDL display configuration
- User Mode Linux driver (Daniel Berrange)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #476560 - CVE-2008-5086 libvirt: missing checks for read-only connection
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476560
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update libvirt' at the command line.
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available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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