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openSUSE Leap 42.3: 2018:0939-1 Critical: Libvirt Issues and Fixes

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Calendar Grey April 13, 2018
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
An urgent security notification underscores key patches for libvirt within openSUSE, tackling various security weaknesses.
An update that solves three vulnerabilities and has 7 fixes is now available.

Description

This update for libvirt and virt-manager fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed:

- CVE-2017-5715: Fixes for speculative side channel attacks aka

"SpectreAttack" (var2) (bsc#1079869).

- CVE-2018-6764: Fixed guest executable code injection via libnss_dns.so

loaded by libvirt_lxc before init (bsc#1080042).

- CVE-2018-1064: Fixed denial of service when reading from guest agent

(bsc#1083625).

Non-security issues fixed in libvirt:

- bsc#1070615: Fixed TPM device passthrough failure on kernels >= 4.0.

- bsc#1082041: SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 hvm converted to pvhvm. Unless

vm memory is on gig boundary, vm won't boot.

- bsc#1082161: Unable to change RTC basis or adjustment for Xen HVM guests

using libvirt.

Non-security issues fixed in virt-manager:

- bsc#1086038: VM guests cannot be properly installed with virt-install

- bsc#1067018: KVM Guest creation failed - Property .cmt not found

- bsc#1054986: Fix...

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical important libvirt openSUSE executable code injection

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-358=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):

libvirt-3.3.0-15.1

libvirt-admin-3.3.0-15.1

libvirt-admin-debuginfo-3.3.0-15.1

libvirt-client-3.3.0-15.1

libvirt-client-debuginfo-3.3.0-15.1

libvirt-daemon-3.3.0-15.1

libvirt-daemon-config-network-3.3.0-15.1

libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter-3.3.0-15.1

libvirt-daemon-debuginfo-3.3.0-15.1

libvirt-daemon-driver-interface-3.3.0-15.1

libvirt-daemon-driver-interface-debuginfo-3.3.0-15.1

libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc-3.3.0-15.1

libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc-debuginfo-3.3.0-15.1

libvirt-daemon-driver-network-3.3.0-15.1

libvirt-daemon-driver-network-debuginfo-3.3.0-15.1

libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev-3.3.0-15.1

libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev-debuginfo-3.3.0-15.1

libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter-3.3.0-15.1

libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter-debuginfo-3.3.0-15.1

libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu-3.3.0-15.1

libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu-debuginfo-3.3.0-15.1

libvirt-daemon-driver-secret-3.3.0-15.1

libvirt-daemon-driver-secret-debuginfo-3.3.0-15.1

libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-3.3.0-15.1

libvirt-daemon-driver-storag...

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References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5715.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1064.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-6764.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1054986

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1067018

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1070615

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1079869

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1080042

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1082041

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1082161

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1083625

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1085757

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1086038

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:0939-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3 le.

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security advisory denial of service critical important libvirt openSUSE executable code injection

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