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openSUSE 15.3: SUSE-SU-2025:0752-1 important: ovmf DoS issues

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Calendar Grey February 28, 2025
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Essential security patches have been released addressing buffer overflow and denial of service vulnerabilities in openSUSE, significantly enhancing the safety of multiple software products.
An update that solves seven vulnerabilities can now be installed.

Description

This update for ovmf fixes the following issues:

* CVE-2023-45229: out-of-bounds read in edk2 when processing IA_NA/IA_TA

options in DHCPv6 Advertise messages. (bsc#1218879)

* CVE-2023-45230: buffer overflow in the DHCPv6 client in edk2 via a long

Server ID option. (bsc#1218880)

* CVE-2023-45231: out-of-bounds read in edk2 when handling a ND Redirect

message with truncated options. (bsc#1218881)

* CVE-2023-45232: infinite loop in edk2 when parsing unknown options in the

Destination Options header. (bsc#1218882)

* CVE-2023-45233: infinite loop in edk2 when parsing PadN options in the

Destination Options header. (bsc#1218883)

* CVE-2023-45234: buffer overflow in edk2 when processing DNS Servers options

in a DHCPv6 Advertise message. (bsc#1218884)

* CVE-2023-45235: buffer overflow in edk2 when handling the Server ID option

in a DHCPv6 proxy Advertise message. (bsc#1218885)

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow critical DoS vulnerability important patch instruction openSUSE ovmf

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 15.3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2025-752=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP3-LTSS-2025-752=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 LTSS

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-SP3-LTSS-2025-752=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-SP3-2025-752=1

* SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1

zypper in -t patch SUSE-Storage-7.1-2025-752=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.1

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SUSE-MicroOS-5.1-2025-752=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.2

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SUSE-MicroOS-5.2-2025-752=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.2

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SUSE-MicroOS-5.2-2025-752=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.3 (aarch64 x86_64)

* ovmf-202008-150300.10.26.1

* ovmf-tools-202008-150300.10.26.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.3 (noarch)

* qemu-uefi-aarch32-202008-150300.10.26.1

* qemu-uefi-aarch64-202008-150300.10.26.1

* qemu-ovmf-x86_64-202008-150300.10.26.1

* qemu-ovmf-ia32-202008-150300.10.26.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.3 (x86_64)

* qemu-ovmf-x86_64-debug-202008-150300.10.26.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP3 (aarch64

x86_64)

* ovmf-202008-150300.10.26.1

* ovmf-tools-202008-150300.10.26.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP3 (noarch)

* qemu-ovmf-x86_64-202008-150300.10.26.1

* qemu-uefi-aarch64-202008-150300.10.26.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 LTSS (aarch64 x86_64)

* ovmf-202008-150300.10.26.1

* ovmf-tools-202008-150300.10.26.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 LTSS (noarch)

* qemu-ovmf-x86_64-202008-150300.10.26.1

* qemu-uefi-aarch64-202008-150300.10.26.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3 (x86_64)

*...

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References

* bsc#1218879

* bsc#1218880

* bsc#1218881

* bsc#1218882

* bsc#1218883

* bsc#1218884

* bsc#1218885

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-45229.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-45230.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-45231.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-45232.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-45233.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-45234.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-45235.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1218879

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1218880

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1218881

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1218882

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1218883

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1218884

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1218885

Severity
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:0752-1
Release Date: 2025-02-28T16:27:49Z
Affected Products: * openSUSE Leap 15.3 * SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.1 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.2 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.2 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 LTSS * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow critical DoS vulnerability important patch instruction openSUSE ovmf

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