SUSE-SU-2018:2141-1

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    SUSE-SU-2018:2141-1

    Published: 30 Jul 2018Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026

    Summary: Security update for libvirt

    Details: This update for libvirt fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2018-3639: Add support for 'ssbd' and 'virt-ssbd' CPUID feature bits to address V4 Speculative Store Bypass aka 'Memory Disambiguation' (bsc#1092885). - CVE-2018-1064: Fix denial of service problem during reading from guest agent (bsc#1083625). - CVE-2018-5748: Fix resource exhaustion via qemuMonitorIORead() method (bsc#1076500). - CVE-2016-5008: Fix that an empty VNC password disables authentication (bsc#987527). - CVE-2017-5715: Fix speculative side channel attacks aka 'SpectreAttack' (var2) (bsc#1079869). Bug fixes: - bsc#980558: Fix NUMA node memory allocation. - bsc#968483: Restart daemons in %posttrans after connection drivers. - bsc#897352: Systemd fails to ignore LSB services. - bsc#956298: virsh domxml-to-native causes segfault of libvirtd. - bsc#964465: libvirtd.service causes systemd warning about xencommons service. - bsc#954872: Script block-dmmd not working as expected. - bsc#854343: libvirt installation run inappropriate systemd restart.

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: libvirt

    Purl: pkg:rpm/suse/libvirt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012-LTSS

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.2.5-27.13.1

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High