[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#955841: libvirt: CVE-2020-10701: guest agent timeout can be set under read-only mode leading to DoS

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: libvirt
Version: 6.0.0-5
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Control: found -1 6.0.0-4
Control: found -1 6.0.0~rc1-1

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for libvirt.

CVE-2020-10701[0]:
| guest agent timeout can be set under read-only mode leading to DoS

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-10701
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-10701

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.4.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled