[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: libvirt-0.8.8-7.fc15

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-9091
2011-07-06 20:54:46
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Name        : libvirt
Product     : Fedora 15
Version     : 0.8.8
Release     : 7.fc15
URL         : http://libvirt.org/
Summary     : Library providing a simple virtualization API
Description :
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). The main package includes
the libvirtd server exporting the virtualization support.

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Update Information:

Fix for CVE-2011-2178, regression introduced in disk probe logic,

Fix for CVE-2011-2511, integer overflow in VirDomainGetVcpus

Make commandtest more robust,

Add ARM to NUMA excludes

Add several build and runtime dependencies to specfile
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Jul  5 2011 Laine Stump <laine at redhat.com> - 0.8.8-7
- Make commandtest more robust.
* Tue Jul  5 2011 Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> - 0.8.8-6
- Add ARM to NUMA excludes
* Tue Jul  5 2011 Laine Stump <laine at redhat.com> 0.8.8-5
- Fix for CVE-2011-2178, regression introduced in disk probe logic,
  Bug 709775
- Fix for CVE-2011-2511, integer overflow in VirDomainGetVcpus,
  Bug 717204
- Add several build and runtime dependencies to specfile
  Bug 680270
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #680270 - libvirt-client is missing some dependencies
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680270
  [ 2 ] Bug #717204 - CVE-2011-2511 libvirt: integer overflow in VirDomainGetVcpus [fedora-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=717204
  [ 3 ] Bug #709775 - CVE-2011-2178 libvirt: regression introduced in disk probe logic [fedora-15]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709775
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update libvirt' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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