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openSUSE Leap 15.6: xen Important Security Update 2025:02316-1

opensuse
Calendar Grey July 15, 2025
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Patch fixes critical bugs concerning Xen on openSUSE Leap 15.6 alongside its modules. System reboot is necessary.
An update that solves three vulnerabilities can now be installed.

Description

This update for xen fixes the following issues:

* CVE-2024-36350, CVE-2024-36357: More AMD transient execution attacks

(bsc#1246112, XSA-471)

* CVE-2025-27465: Incorrect stubs exception handling for flags recovery

(bsc#1244644, XSA-470)

## Special Instructions and Notes:

* Please reboot the system after installing this update.

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Topics Covered

security advisory important OpenSUSE xen transient execution amd attacks

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-2025-2316=1 openSUSE-SLE-15.6-2025-2316=1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP6-2025-2316=1

* Server Applications Module 15-SP6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Server-Applications-15-SP6-2025-2316=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (aarch64 x86_64 i586)

* xen-debugsource-4.18.5_04-150600.3.28.1

* xen-tools-domU-4.18.5_04-150600.3.28.1

* xen-devel-4.18.5_04-150600.3.28.1

* xen-tools-domU-debuginfo-4.18.5_04-150600.3.28.1

* xen-libs-debuginfo-4.18.5_04-150600.3.28.1

* xen-libs-4.18.5_04-150600.3.28.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (x86_64)

* xen-libs-32bit-debuginfo-4.18.5_04-150600.3.28.1

* xen-libs-32bit-4.18.5_04-150600.3.28.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (aarch64 x86_64)

* xen-tools-debuginfo-4.18.5_04-150600.3.28.1

* xen-doc-html-4.18.5_04-150600.3.28.1

* xen-tools-4.18.5_04-150600.3.28.1

* xen-4.18.5_04-150600.3.28.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (noarch)

* xen-tools-xendomains-wait-disk-4.18.5_04-150600.3.28.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (aarch64_ilp32)

* xen-libs-64bit-4.18.5_04-150600.3.28.1

* xen-libs-64bit-debuginfo-4.18.5_04-150600.3.28.1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP6 (x86_64)

* xen-debugsource-4.18.5_04-150600.3.28.1

* xen-tools-domU-4.18.5_04-150600.3.28.1

* xen-tools-domU-debuginfo-4.18.5_04-150600.3.28.1

*...

Read the Full Advisory

References

* bsc#1238896

* bsc#1244644

* bsc#1246112

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-36350.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-36357.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-27465.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1238896

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1244644

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1246112

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:02316-1
Release Date: 2025-07-15T12:59:30Z
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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