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openSUSE Leap 15.5: Xen Moderate Memory Access Risk SUSE-2025:4490-1

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Calendar Grey December 19, 2025
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Critical security update for openSUSE's Xen addresses a memory access issue and includes security fixes. Install promptly.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has two security fixes can now be installed.

Description

This update for xen fixes the following issues:

Update to Xen 4.17.6.

Security issues fixed:

* CVE-2025-58149: incorrect removal of permissions on PCI device unplug allows

PV guests to access memory of devices no longer assigned to them

(bsc#1252692).

Other issues fixed:

* Several upstream bug fixes (bsc#1027519).

* Failure to restart xenstored (bsc#1254180).

## Special Instructions and Notes:

* Please reboot the system after installing this update.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security issue memory access OpenSUSE xen

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 15.5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2025-4490=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.5-2025-4490=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.5 (aarch64 x86_64 i586)

* xen-tools-domU-debuginfo-4.17.6_02-150500.3.56.1

* xen-debugsource-4.17.6_02-150500.3.56.1

* xen-devel-4.17.6_02-150500.3.56.1

* xen-libs-debuginfo-4.17.6_02-150500.3.56.1

* xen-libs-4.17.6_02-150500.3.56.1

* xen-tools-domU-4.17.6_02-150500.3.56.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.5 (x86_64)

* xen-libs-32bit-debuginfo-4.17.6_02-150500.3.56.1

* xen-libs-32bit-4.17.6_02-150500.3.56.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.5 (aarch64 x86_64)

* xen-tools-4.17.6_02-150500.3.56.1

* xen-doc-html-4.17.6_02-150500.3.56.1

* xen-4.17.6_02-150500.3.56.1

* xen-tools-debuginfo-4.17.6_02-150500.3.56.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.5 (noarch)

* xen-tools-xendomains-wait-disk-4.17.6_02-150500.3.56.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.5 (aarch64_ilp32)

* xen-libs-64bit-debuginfo-4.17.6_02-150500.3.56.1

* xen-libs-64bit-4.17.6_02-150500.3.56.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5 (x86_64)

* xen-libs-debuginfo-4.17.6_02-150500.3.56.1

* xen-debugsource-4.17.6_02-150500.3.56.1

* xen-libs-4.17.6_02-150500.3.56.1

References

* bsc#1027519

* bsc#1252692

* bsc#1254180

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-58149.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1027519

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1252692

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1254180

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:4490-1
Release Date: 2025-12-19T11:17:13Z
Affected Products: * openSUSE Leap 15.5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5

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