MGASA-2016-0248

Advisory lineage Upstream: 1 Downstream: 0
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CVE-2016-5008
Published: 08 Jul 2016, 19:50
Last modified:16 Apr 2026, 06:23

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
minimal
0/100
CVSS Score
No data
EPSS Score
No data
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

08 Jul 2016, 19:50
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
16 Apr 2026, 06:23
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

Updated libvirt packages fix security vulnerabilities Updated libvirt packages fix security vulnerability: Vivian Zhang and Christoph Anton Mitterer discovered that setting an empty VNC password does not work as documented in Libvirt, a virtualisation abstraction library. When the password on a VNC server is set to the empty string, authentication on the VNC server will be disabled, allowing any user to connect, despite the documentation declaring that setting an empty password for the VNC server prevents all client connections. With this update the behaviour is enforced by setting the password expiration to "now" (CVE-2016-5008).

Affected Systems

  • mageia•libvirt

    < 1.2.9.3-1.4.mga5

References (4)