Vulnerabilities / SUSE-SU-2016:0459-1

critical

SUSE-SU-2016:0459-1

Security update for qemu

In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

No source gives a CVSS score.

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by SUSE.

Description

This update fixes the following security issues: - Enforce receive packet size, thus eliminating buffer overflow and potential security issue. (bsc#957162 CVE-2015-7512) - Infinite loop in processing command block list. CVE-2015-8345 (bsc#956829): This update also fixes a non-security bug: - Due to space restrictions in limited bios data areas, don't create mptable if vcpu count is 'high' (ie more than ~19). (bsc#954864) (No supported guests are negatively impacted by this change, which is taken from upstream seabios)

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
SUSE Linux Enterprise 12.1qemu, qemu-block-curl, qemu-block-rbd and 11 more2.3.1-7.7 and 3 more
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SourcePackageFixed in
SUSE Linux Enterprise 12.1qemu2.3.1-7.7
SUSE Linux Enterprise 12.1qemu-block-curl2.3.1-7.7
SUSE Linux Enterprise 12.1qemu-block-rbd2.3.1-7.7
SUSE Linux Enterprise 12.1qemu-guest-agent2.3.1-7.7
SUSE Linux Enterprise 12.1qemu-ipxe1.0.0-7.7
SUSE Linux Enterprise 12.1qemu-kvm2.3.1-7.7
SUSE Linux Enterprise 12.1qemu-lang2.3.1-7.7
SUSE Linux Enterprise 12.1qemu-ppc2.3.1-7.7
SUSE Linux Enterprise 12.1qemu-s3902.3.1-7.7
SUSE Linux Enterprise 12.1qemu-seabios1.8.1-7.7
SUSE Linux Enterprise 12.1qemu-sgabios8-7.7
SUSE Linux Enterprise 12.1qemu-tools2.3.1-7.7
SUSE Linux Enterprise 12.1qemu-vgabios1.8.1-7.7
SUSE Linux Enterprise 12.1qemu-x862.3.1-7.7

References

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