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openSUSE 15.3: 2025:1451-1 moderate: libva privilege escalation

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Calendar Grey May 5, 2025
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
The latest openSUSE update mitigates the moderate threat posed by the libva privilege escalation vulnerability, accompanied by various system improvements and feature additions.
An update that solves one vulnerability, contains three features and has two security fixes can now be installed.

Description

This update for libva fixes the following issues:

Update to libva version 2.20.0, which includes security fix for:

* uncontrolled search path may allow an authenticated user to escalate

privilege via local access (CVE-2023-39929, bsc#1224413, jsc#PED-11066)

This includes latest version of one of the components needed for Video

(processing) hardware support on Intel GPUs (bsc#1217770)

Update to version 2.20.0:

* av1: Revise offsets comments for av1 encode

* drm:

* Limit the array size to avoid out of range

* Remove no longer used helpers

* jpeg: add support for crop and partial decode

* trace:

* Add trace for vaExportSurfaceHandle

* Unlock mutex before return

* Fix minor issue about printf data type and value range

* va/backend:

* Annotate vafool as deprecated

* Document the vaGetDriver* APIs

* va/x11/va_fglrx: Remove some dead code

* va/x11/va_nvctrl: Remove some dead code

* va:

* Add new VADecodeErrorType to indicate the...

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate patch escalation openSUSE libva

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-2025-1451=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP3-LTSS-2025-1451=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 LTSS

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-SP3-LTSS-2025-1451=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-SP3-2025-1451=1

* SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1

zypper in -t patch SUSE-Storage-7.1-2025-1451=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.3 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)

* libva2-debuginfo-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1

* libva-x11-2-debuginfo-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1

* libva-debugsource-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1

* libva-drm2-debuginfo-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1

* libva2-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1

* libva-wayland2-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1

* libva-glx2-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1

* libva-gl-debugsource-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1

* libva-gl-devel-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1

* libva-drm2-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1

* libva-glx2-debuginfo-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1

* libva-wayland2-debuginfo-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1

* libva-x11-2-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1

* libva-devel-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.3 (x86_64)

* libva-drm2-32bit-debuginfo-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1

* libva-wayland2-32bit-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1

* libva-wayland2-32bit-debuginfo-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1

* libva-drm2-32bit-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1

* libva-glx2-32bit-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1

* libva-x11-2-32bit-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1

* libva2-32bit-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1

* libva-x11-2-32bit-debuginfo-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1

* libva-glx2-32bit-debuginfo-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1

*...

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References

* bsc#1202828

* bsc#1217770

* bsc#1224413

* jsc#PED-11066

* jsc#PED-1174

* jsc#SLE-19361

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-39929.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1202828

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1217770

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1224413

* https://jira.suse.com/login.jsp?permissionViolation=true&os_destination=%2Fbrowse%2FPED-11066&page_caps=&user_role=

* https://jira.suse.com/login.jsp?permissionViolation=true&os_destination=%2Fbrowse%2FPED-1174&page_caps=&user_role=

* https://jira.suse.com/login.jsp?permissionViolation=true&os_destination=%2Fbrowse%2FSLE-19361&page_caps=&user_role=

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:1451-1
Release Date: 2025-05-05T07:43:42Z
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 Server 15 SP3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 LTSS * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3

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