SUSE-SU-2018:0279-1

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    SUSE-SU-2018:0279-1

    Published: 30 Jan 2018Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
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    Summary: Security update for libvirt

    Details: This update for libvirt provides several fixes. This security issue was fixed: - CVE-2018-5748: Prevent resource exhaustion via qemuMonitorIORead() method which allowed to cause DoS (bsc#1076500). These security issues were fixed: - Add a qemu hook script providing functionality similar to Xen's block-dmmd script. (fate#324177) - schema: Make disk driver name attribute optional. (bsc#1073973) - virt-create-rootfs: Handle all SLE 12 versions. (bsc#1072887) - libvirt-guests: Fix the 'stop' operation when action is 'suspend'. (bsc#1070130) - s390: Fix missing host cpu model info. (bsc#1065766) - cpu: Add new EPYC CPU model. (bsc#1052825, fate#324038) - pci: Fix the detection of the link's maximum speed. (bsc#1064947) - nodedev: Increase the netlink socket buffer size. (bsc#1035442) - storage: Fix a race between the volume creation and the pool refresh. (bsc#1062571) - daemon: Drop the minsize directive from hypervisor logrotate files. (bsc#1062760)

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: libvirt

    Purl: pkg:rpm/suse/libvirt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP3

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.3.0-5.13.1

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    User Interaction
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    Scope
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    Confidentiality
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    Integrity
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    Availability
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