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openSUSE Leap 15.2: 2020:1525-1 Moderate: ovmf Overflow Fix

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Calendar Grey September 25, 2020
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
The recent openSUSE update addresses a moderate severity buffer overflow vulnerability in ovmf. Users need to find relevant patches and follow installation instructions to secure their systems
An update that solves one vulnerability and has one errata is now available.

Description

This update for ovmf fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2019-14562: Fixed an overflow in DxeImageVerificationHandler

(bsc#1175476).

- Support more SCSI drivers (PvScsi, MptScsi and LsiScsi). (bsc#1119454)

- Enable LsiScsi explicitly since it's disabled by default

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

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate overflow openSUSE ovmf SCSI drivers

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-2020-1525=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (i586 x86_64):

ovmf-201911-lp152.6.5.1

ovmf-tools-201911-lp152.6.5.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (x86_64):

qemu-ovmf-x86_64-debug-201911-lp152.6.5.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (noarch):

qemu-ovmf-ia32-201911-lp152.6.5.1

qemu-ovmf-x86_64-201911-lp152.6.5.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-14562.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1119454

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1175476

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:1525-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2 le.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate overflow openSUSE ovmf SCSI drivers

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