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openSUSE 15.5, SUSE-SU-2025:0516-1 moderate: qemu block size issue

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Calendar Grey February 13, 2025
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
The openSUSE qemu security advisory addresses a moderate block size restriction issue, offering essential update guidance.
An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

Description

This update for qemu fixes the following issues:

* CVE-2023-42467: Disallow block sizes smaller than 512 (bsc#1215192).

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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:

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.5-2025-516=1

* openSUSE Leap 15.5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2025-516=1

Package List

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* qemu-ui-spice-core-7.1.0-150500.49.30.1

* qemu-block-curl-7.1.0-150500.49.30.1

* qemu-guest-agent-7.1.0-150500.49.30.1

* qemu-chardev-spice-debuginfo-7.1.0-150500.49.30.1

* qemu-hw-display-virtio-vga-7.1.0-150500.49.30.1

* qemu-debuginfo-7.1.0-150500.49.30.1

* qemu-audio-spice-debuginfo-7.1.0-150500.49.30.1

* qemu-hw-usb-redirect-7.1.0-150500.49.30.1

* qemu-hw-display-qxl-7.1.0-150500.49.30.1

* qemu-chardev-spice-7.1.0-150500.49.30.1

* qemu-ui-opengl-debuginfo-7.1.0-150500.49.30.1

* qemu-guest-agent-debuginfo-7.1.0-150500.49.30.1

* qemu-hw-usb-redirect-debuginfo-7.1.0-150500.49.30.1

* qemu-hw-display-virtio-gpu-7.1.0-150500.49.30.1

* qemu-audio-spice-7.1.0-150500.49.30.1

* qemu-debugsource-7.1.0-150500.49.30.1

* qemu-block-curl-debuginfo-7.1.0-150500.49.30.1

* qemu-tools-7.1.0-150500.49.30.1

* qemu-ui-spice-core-debuginfo-7.1.0-150500.49.30.1

* qemu-hw-display-virtio-gpu-debuginfo-7.1.0-150500.49.30.1

* qemu-7.1.0-150500.49.30.1

*...

Read the Full Advisory

References

* bsc#1215192

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-42467.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1215192

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:0516-1
Release Date: 2025-02-13T11:59:11Z
Affected Products: * openSUSE Leap 15.5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5

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