Synopsis
The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
Description
This update for libvirt and virt-manager fixes the following issues:
Security issues fixed :
- CVE-2017-5715: Fixes for speculative side channel attacks aka 'SpectreAttack' (var2) (bsc#1079869).
- CVE-2018-6764: Fixed guest executable code injection via libnss_dns.so loaded by libvirt_lxc before init (bsc#1080042).
- CVE-2018-1064: Fixed denial of service when reading from guest agent (bsc#1083625). Non-security issues fixed in libvirt :
- bsc#1070615: Fixed TPM device passthrough failure on kernels >= 4.0.
- bsc#1082041: SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 hvm converted to pvhvm. Unless vm memory is on gig boundary, vm won't boot.
- bsc#1082161: Unable to change RTC basis or adjustment for Xen HVM guests using libvirt. Non-security issues fixed in virt-manager :
- bsc#1086038: VM guests cannot be properly installed with virt-install
- bsc#1067018: KVM Guest creation failed - Property .cmt not found
- bsc#1054986: Fix openSUSE 15.0 detection. It has no content file or .treeinfo file
- bsc#1085757: Fallback to latest version of openSUSE when opensuse-unknown is detected for the ISO
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
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-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP3-2018-618=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2018-618=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP3-2018-618=1