Fedora 40: libvirt 2024-ee96e0c470 Security Advisory Updates
Summary
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). The main package includes
the libvirtd server exporting the virtualization support.
Update Information:
Fix crash in event loop (CVE-2024-4418) Fix leak of GSource object Fix leak of udev object reference
Change Log
References
[ 1 ] Bug #2278616 - CVE-2024-4418 libvirt: stack use-after-free in virNetClientIOEventLoop()
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2278616
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-ee96e0c470' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label