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openSUSE Leap 15.6: SUSE-SU-2025:0142-1 moderate: xen speculative attacks

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Calendar Grey January 16, 2025
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A security notice for openSUSE highlights vulnerabilities linked to speculative attack methods present in xen, along with guidelines for applying the necessary updates.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has one security fix can now be installed.

Description

This update for xen fixes the following issues:

* CVE-2024-53241: Xen hypercall page unsafe against speculative attacks

(bsc#1234282).

Bug fixes:

* Update to Xen 4.18.4 security bug fix release (bsc#1027519)

* x86: Prefer ACPI reboot over UEFI ResetSystem() run time service call

* No other changes mentioned in upstream changelog, sources, or webpage

## Special Instructions and Notes:

* Please reboot the system after installing this update.

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Patch

## Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE 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 15.6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2025-142=1 openSUSE-SLE-15.6-2025-142=1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP6-2025-142=1

* Server Applications Module 15-SP6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Server-Applications-15-SP6-2025-142=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (aarch64 x86_64 i586)

* xen-tools-domU-4.18.4_02-150600.3.15.2

* xen-debugsource-4.18.4_02-150600.3.15.2

* xen-tools-domU-debuginfo-4.18.4_02-150600.3.15.2

* xen-libs-debuginfo-4.18.4_02-150600.3.15.2

* xen-devel-4.18.4_02-150600.3.15.2

* xen-libs-4.18.4_02-150600.3.15.2

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (x86_64)

* xen-libs-32bit-debuginfo-4.18.4_02-150600.3.15.2

* xen-libs-32bit-4.18.4_02-150600.3.15.2

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (aarch64 x86_64)

* xen-tools-debuginfo-4.18.4_02-150600.3.15.2

* xen-tools-4.18.4_02-150600.3.15.2

* xen-doc-html-4.18.4_02-150600.3.15.2

* xen-4.18.4_02-150600.3.15.2

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (noarch)

* xen-tools-xendomains-wait-disk-4.18.4_02-150600.3.15.2

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (aarch64_ilp32)

* xen-libs-64bit-4.18.4_02-150600.3.15.2

* xen-libs-64bit-debuginfo-4.18.4_02-150600.3.15.2

* Basesystem Module 15-SP6 (x86_64)

* xen-tools-domU-4.18.4_02-150600.3.15.2

* xen-debugsource-4.18.4_02-150600.3.15.2

* xen-tools-domU-debuginfo-4.18.4_02-150600.3.15.2

*...

Read the Full Advisory

References

* bsc#1027519

* bsc#1234282

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-53241.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1027519

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1234282

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:0142-1
Release Date: 2025-01-16T13:20:15Z
Affected Products: * Basesystem Module 15-SP6 * openSUSE Leap 15.6 * Server Applications Module 15-SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6

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