SB2026010866 - SUSE update for qemu 



SB2026010866 - SUSE update for qemu

Published: January 8, 2026

Security Bulletin ID SB2026010866
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-1544)

The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition within the pvrdma_ring_next_elem_read() function in the QEMU implementation of VMWare's paravirtual RDMA device. A local user can trigger an out-of-bounds read error and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


2) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-6505)

The vulnerability allows a remote user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition within the virtio-net device in QEMU when enabling the RSS feature on the virtio-net network card. A remote privileged user can trigger an out-of-bounds read error and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.