RHSA-2019:1264 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: libvirt security and bug fix update
Severity
ImportantRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · May 24, 2019
Updated · June 28, 2026
Topic
An update for libvirt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Description
The libvirt library contains a C API for managing and interacting with the virtualization capabilities of Linux and other operating systems. In addition, libvirt provides tools for remote management of virtualized systems.
Security Fix(es):
- libvirt: wrong permissions in systemd admin-sock due to missing SocketMode parameter (CVE-2019-10132)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Bug Fix(es):
- libvirt terminates and core-dumps with SIGABRT as a result of a invalid pointer error trying to free memory in virNWFilterBindingDefFree() (BZ#1702173)