[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: libvirt-0.10.2.3-1.fc18

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-1644
2013-01-29 23:33:46
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Name        : libvirt
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 0.10.2.3
Release     : 1.fc18
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:

* Rebased to version 0.10.2.3
* Fix libxl driver to build against xen 4.2 (bz #870689)
* Fix possible crash when destroying guests (bz #877110)
* Fix loading sysctl file (bz #887017)
* Fix svirt memory leak (bz #890039)
* Fix attaching PCI netdev to VM (bz #893131)
* Fix libvirtd segfault on shutdown (bz #903184)
* Raise mem limit to stop qemu processes from getting OOM killed (bz #903432)
* CVE-2013-0170 libvirt: use-after-free in virNetMessageFree() (bz #893450, bz #905173)
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Jan 28 2013 Cole Robinson <crobinso at redhat.com> - 0.10.2.3-1
- Rebased to version 0.10.2.3
- Fix libxl driver to build against xen 4.2 (bz #870689)
- Fix possible crash when destroying guests (bz #877110)
- Fix loading sysctl file (bz #887017)
- Fix svirt memory leak (bz #890039)
- Fix attaching PCI netdev to VM (bz #893131)
- Fix libvirtd segfault on shutdown (bz #903194)
- Raise mem limit to stop qemu processes from getting OOM killed (bz #903432)
- CVE-2013-0170 libvirt: use-after-free in virNetMessageFree() (bz #893450, bz
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #893450 - CVE-2013-0170 libvirt: use-after-free in virNetMessageFree()
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=893450
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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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