libvirt: Multiple Vulnerabilities — GLSA 202210-06

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libvirt, the worst of which could result in denial of service.

Affected packages

app-emulation/libvirt on all architectures
Affected versions < 8.2.0
Unaffected versions >= 8.2.0
dev-python/libvirt-python on all architectures
Affected versions < 8.2.0
Unaffected versions >= 8.2.0

Background

libvirt is a C toolkit for manipulating virtual machines.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libvirt. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All libvirt users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-emulation/libvirt-8.2.0"
 

All libvirt-python users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-python/libvirt-python-8.2.0"
 

References

Release date
October 16, 2022

Latest revision
October 16, 2022: 1

Severity
low

Exploitable
remote

Bugzilla entries