Red Hat Network has determined that the following advisory is applicable to
one or more of the systems you have registered:
Complete information about this errata can be found at the following location:
https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/errata/details/Details.do?eid=6741
Bug Fix Advisory - RHBA-2008:0189-5
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Summary:
libvirt bug fix update
Updated libvirt packages that fix various bugs are now available.
Description:
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities of
recent versions of Linux, and other operating systems.
These updated packages fix the following bugs:
* the xend_parse_sexp_desc() function used a fixed sized 4k buffer, which
could have been overgrown if the domain description was very complex. For
example, running the "virt-install" command with a large set of network
definitions, may have caused the XML description to exceed the 4k buffer.
When the buffer is re-allocated, libvirt tries to free the old buffer
address, resulting in a segmentation fault. As well, another buffer-growth
problem in libvirt has been resolved.
* a potential crash when applications use libvirt has been resolved.
Users of libvirt are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
resolve these issues.
References:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2007-August/msg00220.html
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Taking Action
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You may address the issues outlined in this advisory in two ways:
- select your server name by clicking on its name from the list
available at the following location, and then schedule an
errata update for it:
https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/systems/SystemList.do
- run the Update Agent on each affected server.
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Changing Notification Preferences
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Affected Systems List
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This Errata Advisory may apply to the systems listed below. If you know that
this errata does not apply to a system listed, it might be possible that the
package profile for that server is out of date. In that case you should run
'up2date -p' as root on the system in question to refresh your software profile.
There is 1 affected system registered in 'Your RHN' (only systems for
which you have explicitly enabled Errata Alerts are shown).
Release Arch Profile Name
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5Server EM64T Harpertown2
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