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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------- Taking Action ------------- 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. --------------------------------- Changing Notification Preferences --------------------------------- To enable/disable your Errata Alert preferences globally please log in to RHN and navigate from "Your RHN" / "Your Account" to the "Preferences" tab. URL: https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/account/UserPreferences.do You can also enable/disable notification on a per system basis by selecting an individual system from the "Systems List". From the individual system view click the "Details" tab. --------------------- Affected Systems List --------------------- 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 -------- -------- ------------ 5Server EM64T Harpertown2 The Red Hat Network Team