RHSA-2016:2577MediumCVSS 5.6

Red Hat Security Advisory: libvirt security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Published
November 3, 2016
Last Modified
November 5, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (3)

CVE-2015-5313 →CVE-2016-5008 →CVE-2015-5160 →

📋 Description

CVE-2015-5160 — libvirt: Ceph id/key leaked in the process list CVE-2015-5313 — libvirt: filesystem storage volume names path traversal flaw CVE-2016-5008 — libvirt: Setting empty VNC password allows access to unauthorized users

🎯 Affected products200

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Gluster Storage Server 3.1 on RHEL-7
  • Red Hat Virtualization 4 Management Agent for RHEL 7 Hosts
  • libvirt-0:2.0.0-10.el7.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • libvirt-0:2.0.0-10.el7.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • libvirt-0:2.0.0-10.el7.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • libvirt-0:2.0.0-10.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • libvirt-0:2.0.0-10.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • libvirt-0:2.0.0-10.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • libvirt-0:2.0.0-10.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • libvirt-0:2.0.0-10.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Virtualization 4 Management Agent for RHEL 7 Hosts
  • libvirt-0:2.0.0-10.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • libvirt-0:2.0.0-10.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7)
  • libvirt-0:2.0.0-10.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • libvirt-0:2.0.0-10.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • libvirt-client-0:2.0.0-10.el7.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • libvirt-client-0:2.0.0-10.el7.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • libvirt-client-0:2.0.0-10.el7.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • libvirt-client-0:2.0.0-10.el7.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • libvirt-client-0:2.0.0-10.el7.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • libvirt-client-0:2.0.0-10.el7.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • libvirt-client-0:2.0.0-10.el7.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • libvirt-client-0:2.0.0-10.el7.s390 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • +170 more not shown

✅ Remediation

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 After installing the updated packages, libvirtd will be restarted automatically.

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