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openSUSE Leap 15.6: kubevirt Important Security Update 2025:03278-1

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Calendar Grey September 19, 2025
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This announcement presents a crucial revision for kubevirt concerning security flaws in multiple containers on openSUSE.
An update that solves three vulnerabilities can now be installed.

Description

This update for kubevirt, virt-api-container, virt-controller-container, virt-

exportproxy-container, virt-exportserver-container, virt-handler-container,

virt-launcher-container, virt-libguestfs-tools-container, virt-operator-

container, virt-pr-helper-container fixes the following issues:

This update for kubevirt updates golang.org/x/net to 0.38.0, fixing security

issues (CVE-2025-22872, CVE-2024-45337, CVE-2024-45338, bsc#1234537,

bsc#1235303, bsc#1241772) and also rebuilds it against current GO.

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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-2025-3278=1 openSUSE-SLE-15.6-2025-3278=1

* Containers Module 15-SP6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Containers-15-SP6-2025-3278=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (aarch64 x86_64)

* kubevirt-virt-api-debuginfo-1.4.1-150600.5.24.1

* kubevirt-virt-exportserver-debuginfo-1.4.1-150600.5.24.1

* kubevirt-virt-exportproxy-debuginfo-1.4.1-150600.5.24.1

* kubevirt-virtctl-1.4.1-150600.5.24.1

* kubevirt-virt-launcher-debuginfo-1.4.1-150600.5.24.1

* kubevirt-container-disk-1.4.1-150600.5.24.1

* kubevirt-virtctl-debuginfo-1.4.1-150600.5.24.1

* kubevirt-virt-api-1.4.1-150600.5.24.1

* kubevirt-virt-controller-1.4.1-150600.5.24.1

* kubevirt-virt-exportserver-1.4.1-150600.5.24.1

* kubevirt-container-disk-debuginfo-1.4.1-150600.5.24.1

* kubevirt-virt-launcher-1.4.1-150600.5.24.1

* kubevirt-virt-operator-1.4.1-150600.5.24.1

* kubevirt-tests-debuginfo-1.4.1-150600.5.24.1

* kubevirt-virt-exportproxy-1.4.1-150600.5.24.1

* kubevirt-virt-controller-debuginfo-1.4.1-150600.5.24.1

* kubevirt-pr-helper-conf-1.4.1-150600.5.24.1

* kubevirt-tests-1.4.1-150600.5.24.1

* kubevirt-virt-handler-1.4.1-150600.5.24.1

* kubevirt-manifests-1.4.1-150600.5.24.1

*...

Read the Full Advisory

References

* bsc#1234537

* bsc#1235303

* bsc#1241772

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-45337.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-45338.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-22872.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1234537

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1235303

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1241772

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:03278-1
Release Date: 2025-09-19T13:42:11Z
Affected Products: * Containers Module 15-SP6 * openSUSE Leap 15.6 * 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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