RHBA-2011:1573 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated perl-Sys-Virt package that fixes one bug and adds one enhancement is
now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The perl-Sys-Virt package provides application programming interfaces (APIs) for
managing virtual machines from Perl, using the libvirt library.

This update fixes the following bug:

• Prior to this update, the flags argument was hardcoded to value 0 in

virDomainGetXMLDesc. As a result, security sensitive domain information was not
accessible using the libvirt perl bindings. This update adds the flags parameter
to all get_xml_description methods. Now, the security sensitive domain
information can be obtained as expected. (BZ#705792)

This update also adds the following enhancement:

• The Sys::Virt module has been updated to provide support for the new APIs

introduced between version 0.8.7 and 0.9.3 of the libvirt library. (BZ#717887)

All users of perl-Sys-Virt are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which
fixes this bug and adds this enhancement.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant
to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red
Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 717887 - Rebase to match latest libvirt version to support all new APIs

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)