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openSUSE Leap 15.2: 2020:1455-1 Important: libvirt DoS Issue

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Calendar Grey September 19, 2020
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
openSUSE has released an important security fix for libvirt addressing a severe vulnerability. Discover the steps to update your system without delay.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has one errata is now available.

Description

This update for libvirt fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2020-14339: Don't leak /dev/mapper/control into QEMU. Use ioctl's to

obtain the dependency tree of disks and drop use of libdevmapper.

bsc#1161883, bsc#1174458

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15-SP2:Update update project.

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 15.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2020-1455=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (i586 x86_64):

libvirt-6.0.0-lp152.9.3.1

libvirt-admin-6.0.0-lp152.9.3.1

libvirt-admin-debuginfo-6.0.0-lp152.9.3.1

libvirt-client-6.0.0-lp152.9.3.1

libvirt-client-debuginfo-6.0.0-lp152.9.3.1

libvirt-daemon-6.0.0-lp152.9.3.1

libvirt-daemon-config-network-6.0.0-lp152.9.3.1

libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter-6.0.0-lp152.9.3.1

libvirt-daemon-debuginfo-6.0.0-lp152.9.3.1

libvirt-daemon-driver-interface-6.0.0-lp152.9.3.1

libvirt-daemon-driver-interface-debuginfo-6.0.0-lp152.9.3.1

libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc-6.0.0-lp152.9.3.1

libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc-debuginfo-6.0.0-lp152.9.3.1

libvirt-daemon-driver-network-6.0.0-lp152.9.3.1

libvirt-daemon-driver-network-debuginfo-6.0.0-lp152.9.3.1

libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev-6.0.0-lp152.9.3.1

libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev-debuginfo-6.0.0-lp152.9.3.1

libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter-6.0.0-lp152.9.3.1

libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter-debuginfo-6.0.0-lp152.9.3.1

libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu-6.0.0-lp152.9.3.1

libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu-debuginfo-6.0.0-lp152.9.3.1

libvirt-d...

Read the Full Advisory

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-14339.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1161883

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1174458

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:1455-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2 le.

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