Bug 6818

Summary: libguestfs new security issue CVE-2012-2690
Product: Mageia Reporter: David Walser <luigiwalser>
Component: SecurityAssignee: Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal CC: saispo
Version: Cauldron   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: i586   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Source RPM: libguestfs-1.5.21-1.mga1.src.rpm CVE:
Status comment:

Description David Walser 2012-07-18 12:35:09 CEST
RedHat has issued an advisory on June 20:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0774.html

Mageia 1 and Mageia 2 are also affected.

It's fixed upstream in 1.18.0 and there's a link to a patch in RH bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=831117
David Walser 2012-07-18 12:35:34 CEST

CC: (none) => saispo

Comment 1 David Walser 2012-08-15 00:06:42 CEST
There is also CVE-2010-3851:
http://lwn.net/Vulnerabilities/413075/
Comment 2 David Walser 2012-08-15 01:07:10 CEST
This was in SVN, but never built.  I moved it to obsolete.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => WONTFIX