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openSUSE Leap 15.1: 2020:1778-1 Important: libvirt DoS Issues

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Calendar Grey October 30, 2020
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openSUSE Security Update: Security update for libvirt ______________________________________________
An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has four fixes is now available.

Description

This update for libvirt fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2020-15708: Added a note to libvirtd.conf about polkit auth in SUSE

distros (bsc#1174955).

- CVE-2020-25637: Fixed a double free in qemuAgentGetInterfaces()

(bsc#1177155).

- qemu: Adjust max memlock on mdev hotplug (bsc#1177480).

- Xen: Don't add dom0 twice on driver reload (bsc#1176430).

- virdevmapper: Handle kernel without device-mapper support (bsc#1175465).

- Fixed an issue where building was failing (bsc#1175574).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15-SP1:Update update project.

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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 15.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2020-1778=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (x86_64):

libvirt-5.1.0-lp151.7.10.1

libvirt-admin-5.1.0-lp151.7.10.1

libvirt-admin-debuginfo-5.1.0-lp151.7.10.1

libvirt-client-5.1.0-lp151.7.10.1

libvirt-client-debuginfo-5.1.0-lp151.7.10.1

libvirt-daemon-5.1.0-lp151.7.10.1

libvirt-daemon-config-network-5.1.0-lp151.7.10.1

libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter-5.1.0-lp151.7.10.1

libvirt-daemon-debuginfo-5.1.0-lp151.7.10.1

libvirt-daemon-driver-interface-5.1.0-lp151.7.10.1

libvirt-daemon-driver-interface-debuginfo-5.1.0-lp151.7.10.1

libvirt-daemon-driver-libxl-5.1.0-lp151.7.10.1

libvirt-daemon-driver-libxl-debuginfo-5.1.0-lp151.7.10.1

libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc-5.1.0-lp151.7.10.1

libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc-debuginfo-5.1.0-lp151.7.10.1

libvirt-daemon-driver-network-5.1.0-lp151.7.10.1

libvirt-daemon-driver-network-debuginfo-5.1.0-lp151.7.10.1

libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev-5.1.0-lp151.7.10.1

libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev-debuginfo-5.1.0-lp151.7.10.1

libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter-5.1.0-lp151.7.10.1

libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter-debuginfo-5.1.0-lp1...

Read the Full Advisory

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-15708.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-25637.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1174955

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1175465

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1175574

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1176430

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1177155

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1177480

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:1778-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.1 le.

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