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SUSE-SU-2018:2141-1 Not scored

Security update for libvirt

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.

Exploit probability Not scored
Published July 30, 2018
Required by Not available
Last source change February 4, 2026

02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE

Affected packages

SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS libvirt

03 / CONNECTIONS

Connected vulnerabilities

04 / EVIDENCE

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Open Source Vulnerabilities SUSE-SU-2018:2141-1

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.

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