SUSE-SU-2025:1451-1: moderate: Security update for libva

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# Security update for libva

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:1451-1  
Release Date: 2025-05-05T07:43:42Z  
Rating: moderate  
References:

  * bsc#1202828
  * bsc#1217770
  * bsc#1224413
  * jsc#PED-11066
  * jsc#PED-1174
  * jsc#SLE-19361

  
Cross-References:

  * CVE-2023-39929

  
CVSS scores:

  * CVE-2023-39929 ( SUSE ):  6.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

  
Affected Products:

  * openSUSE Leap 15.3
  * SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1
  * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3
  * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP3
  * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3
  * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 LTSS
  * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3

  
  
An update that solves one vulnerability, contains three features and has two
security fixes can now be installed.

## Description:

This update for libva fixes the following issues:

Update to libva version 2.20.0, which includes security fix for:

  * uncontrolled search path may allow an authenticated user to escalate
    privilege via local access (CVE-2023-39929, bsc#1224413, jsc#PED-11066)

This includes latest version of one of the components needed for Video
(processing) hardware support on Intel GPUs (bsc#1217770)

Update to version 2.20.0:

  * av1: Revise offsets comments for av1 encode
  * drm:
    * Limit the array size to avoid out of range
    * Remove no longer used helpers
  * jpeg: add support for crop and partial decode
  * trace:
    * Add trace for vaExportSurfaceHandle
    * Unlock mutex before return
    * Fix minor issue about printf data type and value range
  * va/backend:
    * Annotate vafool as deprecated
    * Document the vaGetDriver* APIs
  * va/x11/va_fglrx: Remove some dead code
  * va/x11/va_nvctrl: Remove some dead code
  * va:
    * Add new VADecodeErrorType to indicate the reset happended in the driver
    * Add vendor string on va_TraceInitialize
    * Added Q416 fourcc (three-plane 16-bit YUV 4:4:4)
    * Drop no longer applicable vaGetDriverNames check
    * Fix:don't leak driver names, when override is set
    * Fix:set driver number to be zero if vaGetDriverNames failed
    * Optimize code of getting driver name for all protocols/os (wayland,x11,drm,win32,android)
    * Remove legacy code paths
    * Remove unreachable "DRIVER BUG"
  * win32:
    * Only print win32 driver messages in DEBUG builds
    * Remove duplicate adapter_luid entry
  * x11/dri2: limit the array handling to avoid out of range access
  * x11:
    * Allow disabling DRI3 via LIBVA_DRI3_DISABLE env var
    * Implement vaGetDriverNames
    * Remove legacy code paths

Update to 2.19.0:

  * add: Add mono_chrome to VAEncSequenceParameterBufferAV1
  * add: Enable support for license acquisition of multiple protected playbacks
  * fix: use secure_getenv instead of getenv
  * trace: Improve and add VA trace log for AV1 encode
  * trace: Unify va log message, replace va_TracePrint with va_TraceMsg.

Update to version 2.18.0:

  * doc: Add build and install libva informatio in home page.
  * fix:
    * Add libva.def into distribution package
    * NULL check before calling strncmp.
    * Remove reference to non-existent symbol
  * meson: docs:
    * Add encoder interface for av1
    * Use libva_version over project_version()
  * va:
    * Add VAProfileH264High10
    * Always build with va-messaging API
    * Fix the codying style of CHECK_DISPLAY
    * Remove Android pre Jelly Bean workarounds
    * Remove dummy isValid() hook
    * Remove unused drm_sarea.h include & ANDROID references in va_dricommon.h
    * va/sysdeps.h: remove Android section
  * x11:
    * Allow disabling DRI3 via LIBVA_DRI3_DISABLe env var
    * Use LIBVA_DRI3_DISABLE in GetNumCandidates

Update to 2.17.0:

  * win: Simplify signature for driver name loading
  * win: Rewrite driver registry query and fix some bugs/leaks/inefficiencies
  * win: Add missing null check after calloc
  * va: Update security disclaimer
  * dep:remove the file .cvsignore
  * pkgconfig: add 'with-legacy' for emgd, nvctrl and fglrx
  * meson: add 'with-legacy' for emgd, nvctrl and fglrx
  * x11: move all FGLRX code to va_fglrx.c
  * x11: move all NVCTRL code to va_nvctrl.c
  * meson: stop using deprecated meson.source_root()
  * meson: stop using configure_file copy=true
  * va: correctly include the win32 (local) headers
  * win: clean-up the coding style
  * va: dos2unix all the files
  * drm: remove unnecessary dri2 version/extension query
  * trace: annotate internal functions with DLL_HIDDEN
  * build/sysdeps: Remove HAVE_GNUC_VISIBILITY_ATTRIBUTE and use _GNUC_ support
    level attribute instead
  * meson: Check support for -Wl,-version-script and build link_args accordingly
  * meson: Set va_win32 soversion to '' and remove the install_data rename
  * fix: resouce check null
  * va_trace: Add Win32 memory types in va_TraceSurfaceAttributes
  * va_trace: va_TraceSurfaceAttributes should check the
    VASurfaceAttribMemoryType
  * va: Adds Win32 Node and Windows build support
  * va: Adds compat_win32 abstraction for Windows build and prepares va common
    code for windows build
  * pkgconfig: Add Win32 package for when WITH_WIN32 is enabled
  * meson: Add with_win32 option, makes libdrm non-mandatory on Win
  * x11: add basic DRI3 support
  * drm: remove VA_DRM_IsRenderNodeFd() helper
  * drm: add radeon drm + radeonsi mesa combo

Needed for jira#PED-1174 (Video decoding/encoding support (VA-API, ...) for
Intel GPUs is outside of Mesa)

Update to 2.16.0:

  * add: Add HierarchicalFlag & hierarchical_level_plus1 for AV1e.
  * dep: Update README.md to remove badge links
  * dep: Removed waffle-io badge from README to fix broken link
  * dep: Drop mailing list, IRC and Slack
  * autotools: use wayland-scanner private-code
  * autotools: use the wayland-scanner.pc to locate the prog
  * meson: use wayland-scanner private-code
  * meson: request native wayland-scanner
  * meson: use the wayland-scanner.pc to locate the prog
  * meson: set HAVE_VA_X11 when applicable
  * style:Correct slight coding style in several new commits
  * trace: add Linux ftrace mode for va trace
  * trace: Add missing pthread_mutex_destroy
  * drm: remove no-longer needed X == X mappings
  * drm: fallback to drm driver name == va driver name
  * drm: simplify the mapping table
  * x11: simplify the mapping table

Update to version 2.15.0 was part of Intel oneVPL GPU Runtime 2022Q2 Release
22.4.4

Update to 2.15.0:

  * Add: new display HW attribute to report PCI ID
  * Add: sample depth related parameters for AV1e
  * Add: refresh_frame_flags for AV1e
  * Add: missing fields in va_TraceVAEncSequenceParameterBufferHEVC.
  * Add: nvidia-drm to the drm driver map
  * Add: type and buffer for delta qp per block
  * Deprecation: remove the va_fool support
  * Fix:Correct the version of meson build on master branch
  * Fix:X11 DRI2: check if device is a render node
  * Build:Use also strong stack protection if supported
  * Trace:print the string for profile/entrypoint/configattrib

Update to 2.14.0:

  * add: Add av1 encode interfaces
  * add: VA/X11 VAAPI driver mapping for crocus DRI driver
  * doc: Add description of the fd management for surface importing
  * ci: fix freebsd build
  * meson: Copy public headers to build directory to support subproject

Update to 2.13.0

  * add new surface format fourcc XYUV
  * Fix av1 dec doc page link issue
  * unify the code styles using the style_unify script
  * Check the function pointer before using (fixes github issue#536)
  * update NEWS for 2.13.0

Update to 2.12.0:

  * add: Report the capability of vaCopy support
  * add: Report the capability of sub device
  * add: Add config attributes to advertise HEVC/H.265 encoder features
  * add: Video processing HVS Denoise: Added 4 modes
  * add: Introduce VASurfaceAttribDRMFormatModifiers
  * add: Add 3DLUT Filter in Video Processing.
  * doc: Update log2_tile_column description for vp9enc
  * trace: Correct av1 film grain trace information
  * ci: Fix freebsd build by switching to vmactions/freebsd-vm at v0.1.3

Update to 2.11.0:

  * add: LibVA Protected Content API
  * add: Add a configuration attribute to advertise AV1d LST feature
  * fix: wayland: don't try to authenticate with render nodes
  * autotools: use shell grouping instead of sed to prepend a line
  * trace: Add details data dump for mpeg2 IQ matrix.
  * doc: update docs for VASurfaceAttribPixelFormat
  * doc: Libva documentation edit for AV1 reference frames
  * doc: Modify AV1 frame_width_minus1 and frame_height_minus1 comment
  * doc: Remove tile_rows and tile_cols restriction to match AV1 spec
  * doc: Format code for doxygen output
  * doc: AV1 decode documentation edit for superres_scale_denominator
  * ci: upgrade FreeBSD to 12.2
  * ci: disable travis build
  * ci: update cache before attempting to install packages
  * ci: avoid running workloads on other workloads changes
  * ci: enable github actions

  * CVE-2023-39929: Fixed an issue where an uncontrolled search path may allow
    authenticated users to escalate privilege via local access. (bsc#1224413)

## Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like
YaST online_update or "zypper patch".  
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  * openSUSE Leap 15.3  
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-2025-1451=1

  * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP3  
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP3-LTSS-2025-1451=1

  * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 LTSS  
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-SP3-LTSS-2025-1451=1

  * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3  
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-SP3-2025-1451=1

  * SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1  
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-Storage-7.1-2025-1451=1

## Package List:

  * openSUSE Leap 15.3 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)
    * libva2-debuginfo-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-x11-2-debuginfo-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-debugsource-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-drm2-debuginfo-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva2-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-wayland2-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-glx2-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-gl-debugsource-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-gl-devel-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-drm2-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-glx2-debuginfo-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-wayland2-debuginfo-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-x11-2-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-devel-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
  * openSUSE Leap 15.3 (x86_64)
    * libva-drm2-32bit-debuginfo-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-wayland2-32bit-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-wayland2-32bit-debuginfo-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-drm2-32bit-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-glx2-32bit-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-x11-2-32bit-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva2-32bit-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-x11-2-32bit-debuginfo-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-glx2-32bit-debuginfo-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-gl-devel-32bit-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva2-32bit-debuginfo-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-devel-32bit-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
  * openSUSE Leap 15.3 (aarch64_ilp32)
    * libva-drm2-64bit-debuginfo-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-wayland2-64bit-debuginfo-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-drm2-64bit-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-gl-devel-64bit-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-x11-2-64bit-debuginfo-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-wayland2-64bit-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-glx2-64bit-debuginfo-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva2-64bit-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-glx2-64bit-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-x11-2-64bit-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva2-64bit-debuginfo-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-devel-64bit-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
  * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP3 (aarch64
    x86_64)
    * libva2-debuginfo-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-x11-2-debuginfo-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-debugsource-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-drm2-debuginfo-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva2-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-wayland2-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-drm2-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-wayland2-debuginfo-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-x11-2-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-devel-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
  * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 LTSS (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    * libva2-debuginfo-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-x11-2-debuginfo-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-debugsource-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-drm2-debuginfo-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva2-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-wayland2-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-drm2-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-wayland2-debuginfo-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-x11-2-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-devel-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
  * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3 (ppc64le x86_64)
    * libva2-debuginfo-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-x11-2-debuginfo-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-debugsource-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-drm2-debuginfo-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva2-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-wayland2-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-drm2-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-wayland2-debuginfo-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-x11-2-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-devel-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
  * SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1 (aarch64 x86_64)
    * libva2-debuginfo-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-x11-2-debuginfo-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-debugsource-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-drm2-debuginfo-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva2-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-wayland2-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-drm2-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-wayland2-debuginfo-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-x11-2-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1
    * libva-devel-2.20.0-150300.3.3.1

## References:

  * https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-39929.html
  * https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1202828
  * https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1217770
  * https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1224413
  * https://jira.suse.com/browse/PED-11066
  * https://jira.suse.com/browse/PED-1174
  * https://jira.suse.com/browse/SLE-19361

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