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openSUSE Leap 16.0 kubevirt Important Security Update 2026-20281-1

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Calendar Grey February 28, 2026
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Update for openSUSE kubevirt resolves security issues and enhances stability with critical fixes.
An update that solves 8 vulnerabilities and has 9 bug fixes can now be installed.

Description

This update for kubevirt fixes the following issues:

Update to version 1.7.0 (bsc#1257128).

Security issues fixed:

- CVE-2025-64435: logic flaw in the virt-controller can lead to incorrect status updates and potentially causing a DoS

(bsc#1253189).

- CVE-2024-45310: kubevirt vendored github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer/utils: runc can be tricked into

creating empty files/directories on host (bsc#1257422).

- CVE-2025-22872: incorrectly interpreted tags can cause content to be placed wrong scope during DOM construction

(bsc#1241772).

- CVE-2025-64432: fail to correctly validate certain fields in the client TLS certificate may allow an attacker to

bypass existing RBAC controls (bsc#1253181).

- CVE-2025-64433: improper symlink handling can allow to read arbitrary files (bsc#1253185).

- CVE-2025-64434: compromising virt-handler instance can lead to impersonate virt-api and execute privileged operations

(bsc#1253186).

- CVE-2025-64437:...

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Topics Covered

security advisory DoS important bug fixes OpenSUSE kubevirt

Patch

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 16.0:

kubevirt-container-disk-1.7.0-160000.1.1

kubevirt-manifests-1.7.0-160000.1.1

kubevirt-pr-helper-conf-1.7.0-160000.1.1

kubevirt-sidecar-shim-1.7.0-160000.1.1

kubevirt-tests-1.7.0-160000.1.1

kubevirt-virt-api-1.7.0-160000.1.1

kubevirt-virt-controller-1.7.0-160000.1.1

kubevirt-virt-exportproxy-1.7.0-160000.1.1

kubevirt-virt-exportserver-1.7.0-160000.1.1

kubevirt-virt-handler-1.7.0-160000.1.1

kubevirt-virt-launcher-1.7.0-160000.1.1

kubevirt-virt-operator-1.7.0-160000.1.1

kubevirt-virt-synchronization-controller-1.7.0-160000.1.1

kubevirt-virtctl-1.7.0-160000.1.1

obs-service-kubevirt_containers_meta-1.7.0-160000.1.1

References

* bsc#1241772

* bsc#1253181

* bsc#1253185

* bsc#1253186

* bsc#1253189

* bsc#1253194

* bsc#1253748

* bsc#1257128

* bsc#1257422

References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-45310.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-22872.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-64324.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-64432.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-64433.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-64434.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-64435.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-64437.html

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2026:20281-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 16.0 -------------------------------------------------------------

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