RHBA-2013:1581 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated libvirt packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are
now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The libvirt library is 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.

These updated libvirt packages include numerous bug fixes and enhancements.
Space precludes documenting all of these changes in this advisory. Users are
directed to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 Technical Notes for information on
the most significant of these changes:

https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.5_Technical_Notes/libvirt.html#RHBA-2013-1581

All libvirt users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix
these bugs and add 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/site/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
• 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 Virtualization 3 for RHEL 6 x86_64
• 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 Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 803602 - [RFE]libvirt should support to launch multiple consoles to a VNC guest with qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.240.el6
• BZ - 846013 - Support migration with IPv6 addresses
• BZ - 870003 - libvirt should forbid deleting usb controller when guest with smartcard
• BZ - 888503 - libvirt: wrong cpu topology - AMD Bulldozer 62XX familly
• BZ - 889635 - 'virsh shutdown' is broken if guest-agent isn't responsive
• BZ - 889961 - VDSM | Libvirt fails the migration process when removing 1st boot device from running VM.
• BZ - 892079 - Libvirtd crash when destroyed the windows guest which was excuting s3/s4 operation
• BZ - 894723 - libvirt: cannot resume a suspended vm - vm is shut down
• BZ - 895294 - vmUpdateDevice fails when nic has boot order set
• BZ - 895882 - invalid domain pointer error occurs when use domain object from snapshot object 's getdomain method
• BZ - 896013 - Libvirt is not relabelling qcow2 backing files
• BZ - 896604 - libvirt: qemu, qxl device: support ram_size parameter
• BZ - 903092 - error message occur in libvirtd.log when destroy the lxc container
• BZ - 903238 - Concurrency/locking causes segfault
• BZ - 903248 - vdsm: cannot run a vm with several snapshots
• BZ - 908073 - Crash changing CDROM device media
• BZ - 911609 - [abrt] libvirt-client-0.10.2-18.el6: remoteClientCloseFunc: Process /usr/bin/virsh was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
• BZ - 912170 - memoryStats fail did not raise libvirtError
• BZ - 913244 - Create valid command line for QEMU with only SPICE TLS autoport specified
• BZ - 920205 - RHEVM 3.2, migration - long pause till vm starts running on destination
• BZ - 921387 - libvirtd crashes when deleting logical storage pool
• BZ - 922153 - libvirt spams audit log with unneeded failures
• BZ - 922203 - Cgroup audit events with path are not escaped
• BZ - 923053 - change-media can not insert media on block type cdrom
• BZ - 923946 - RHEL-6.4: migration is failing: libvirtError: XML error: missing security model when using multiple labels
• BZ - 928661 - Libvirtd crash when destroying linux guest which executed a series of operations about S3 and save /restore
• BZ - 947387 - Running domain may disappear after libvirtd is restarted when selinux security driver is disabled
• BZ - 950286 - libvirtd crash on race with auto-destroy guests
• BZ - 951227 - race in libvirt testsuite could prevent a successful rpm build
• BZ - 954248 - error/debug messages throw out when start guest with static label + relabel='no' and libvirtd log_level=1
• BZ - 955575 - libvirt does not support virtualHW.version 9
• BZ - 961034 - libvirt live migration got unexpected fail
• BZ - 964359 - virSetUIDGID can deadlock due to unsafe use of getpwuid_r
• BZ - 971485 - Live migration fails if "vnc_listen" set in /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf
• BZ - 971904 - libvirtd crashes on startup with udev_log="debug" in /etc/udev/udev.conf
• BZ - 972675 - Fail migration when VM get paused due to EIO
• BZ - 975392 - libvirtd leaks iscsi portal string on iscsi pool start
• BZ - 975751 - configure both SPICE and VNC display console
• BZ - 977430 - libvirt leaks cpuset mask
• BZ - 977961 - libvirtd leaks URI on destination when migrating
• BZ - 978352 - libvirtd leaks memory in virCgroupMoveTask
• BZ - 978356 - valgrind shows an off-by-one error in virCgroupGetValueStr
• BZ - 979330 - The driver in output of virsh command nodedev-dumpxml should be updated timely
• BZ - 980339 - libvirtd crashes when starting a guest that uses a hostdev network specifying a nonexistent PF
• BZ - 981503 - Octal device number is offered in libvirtError when virt-install guest with duplicate --host-device options.
• BZ - 983539 - Libvirt should stop starting the fs and netfs pool using inexistent/unreachable source device
• BZ - 984793 - libvirtd crashed when start a guest with <seclabel> element in xml
• BZ - 984821 - Crash of libvirtd without guest agent configuration
• BZ - 991334 - Libvirt lost error messages when starting a domain with pci hostdev after setting iommu off.
• BZ - 995312 - Libvirtd crashed after attaching a qemu-kvm process using qemu-attach
• BZ - 997367 - CVE-2013-5651 Running numatune with invalid nodeset parameter crash libvirtd [rhel-6.5]
• BZ - 997818 - [LXC] crash of libvirtd with 'none' type security label
• BZ - 1000973 - libvirtd crash when starting guest after cold-plug interface with hostdev network
• BZ - 1001881 - Fail to start guest after cold-plugging more than one VF from a pool of SRIOV VFs
• BZ - 1002735 - libvirt should work around broken <linux/if_bridge.h>
• BZ - 1002790 - [docs] The description in the help of command "blockcopy" should be updated
• BZ - 1004365 - libvirt network schema isn't valid
• BZ - 1006710 - domain with auto numatune placement and a nodeset specified crashes libvirtd
• BZ - 1009886 - libvirtd crashes during established spice session migration.
• BZ - 1011981 - `service libvirt-guests status` may return 0 even if stopped
• BZ - 1013758 - Cgroups memory limit are causing the virt to be terminated unexpectedly
• BZ - 1014198 - Allow QoS change on the fly using updateDeviceFlags

CVEs

• CVE-2013-7336

References

• https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.5_Technical_Notes/libvirt.html#RHBA-2013-1581