RHSA-2011:0478Medium

Red Hat Security Advisory: libvirt security update

Published
May 2, 2011
Last Modified
November 7, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2011-1486 →

📋 Description

CVE-2011-1486 — libvirt: error reporting in libvirtd is not thread safe

🎯 Affected products14

  • RHEL Virtualization (v. 5 server)
  • libvirt-0:0.8.2-15.el5_6.4.i386 as a component of RHEL Virtualization (v. 5 server)
  • libvirt-0:0.8.2-15.el5_6.4.ia64 as a component of RHEL Virtualization (v. 5 server)
  • libvirt-0:0.8.2-15.el5_6.4.src as a component of RHEL Virtualization (v. 5 server)
  • libvirt-0:0.8.2-15.el5_6.4.x86_64 as a component of RHEL Virtualization (v. 5 server)
  • libvirt-debuginfo-0:0.8.2-15.el5_6.4.i386 as a component of RHEL Virtualization (v. 5 server)
  • libvirt-debuginfo-0:0.8.2-15.el5_6.4.ia64 as a component of RHEL Virtualization (v. 5 server)
  • libvirt-debuginfo-0:0.8.2-15.el5_6.4.x86_64 as a component of RHEL Virtualization (v. 5 server)
  • libvirt-devel-0:0.8.2-15.el5_6.4.i386 as a component of RHEL Virtualization (v. 5 server)
  • libvirt-devel-0:0.8.2-15.el5_6.4.ia64 as a component of RHEL Virtualization (v. 5 server)
  • libvirt-devel-0:0.8.2-15.el5_6.4.x86_64 as a component of RHEL Virtualization (v. 5 server)
  • libvirt-python-0:0.8.2-15.el5_6.4.i386 as a component of RHEL Virtualization (v. 5 server)
  • libvirt-python-0:0.8.2-15.el5_6.4.ia64 as a component of RHEL Virtualization (v. 5 server)
  • libvirt-python-0:0.8.2-15.el5_6.4.x86_64 as a component of RHEL Virtualization (v. 5 server)

✅ Remediation

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied. This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

🔗 References (4)