From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Thu May 29 2008 - 19:20:04 CDT

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TITLE:
Fedora update for kvm

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA30413

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/30413/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Security Bypass

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Fedora 8
http://secunia.com/product/16769/
Fedora 9
http://secunia.com/product/18642/

DESCRIPTION:
Fedora has issued an update for kvm. This fixes a vulnerability,
which can be exploited by malicious, local users to bypass certain
security restrictions or cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

For more information:
SA29129

SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages via the yum utility ("yum update kvm").

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00935.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00706.html

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA29129:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29129/

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