MGASA-2016-0248

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Source
https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0248.html
Import Source
https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0248.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MGASA-2016-0248
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Published
2016-07-08T19:50:51Z
Modified
2016-07-08T19:39:07Z
Summary
Updated libvirt packages fix security vulnerabilities
Details

Updated libvirt packages fix security vulnerability:

Vivian Zhang and Christoph Anton Mitterer discovered that setting an empty VNC password does not work as documented in Libvirt, a virtualisation abstraction library. When the password on a VNC server is set to the empty string, authentication on the VNC server will be disabled, allowing any user to connect, despite the documentation declaring that setting an empty password for the VNC server prevents all client connections. With this update the behaviour is enforced by setting the password expiration to "now" (CVE-2016-5008).

References
Credits

Affected packages

Mageia:5 / libvirt

Package

Name
libvirt
Purl
pkg:rpm/mageia/libvirt?distro=mageia-5

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.2.9.3-1.4.mga5

Ecosystem specific 

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    "section": "core"
}