SUSE Linux Enterprise 12-SP5: 2020:2233-1 Critical: libvirt Buffer Overflow
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August 13, 2020
An update that solves one vulnerability and has three fixes is now available
Summary
This update for libvirt fixes the following issues: - CVE-2020-14339: Don't leak /dev/mapper/control into QEMU. Use ioctl's to obtain the dependency tree of disks and drop use of libdevmapper. - bsc#1161883, bsc#1174458 - qemu: Setup emulator thread and cpuset.mems before exec - bsc#1171946 - libxl: Normalize MAC address in device conf on netdev hotplug - bsc#1172052 Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security 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 Software Development Kit 12-SP5: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP5-2020-2233=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2020-2233=1 Package List:
Topics Covered
References
#1161883 #1171946 #1172052 #1174458
Cross- CVE-2020-14339
Affected Products:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP5
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-14339.html
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1161883
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1171946
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1172052
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1174458
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2020:2233-1
Rating: important
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