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<h1>Security update for vhostmd</h1>
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<th>Announcement ID:</th>
<td>SUSE-SU-2024:4416-1</td>
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<th>Release Date:</th>
<td>2024-12-24T08:21:06Z</td>
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<th>Rating:</th>
<td>moderate</td>
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<th>References:</th>
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<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1129772">bsc#1129772</a>
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<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1152803">bsc#1152803</a>
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<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1154838">bsc#1154838</a>
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<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1181400">bsc#1181400</a>
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<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1230961">bsc#1230961</a>
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<th>Affected Products:</th>
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<li class="list-group-item">openSUSE Leap 15.6</li>
<li class="list-group-item">Server Applications Module 15-SP6</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP6</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6</li>
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<p>An update that has five security fixes can now be installed.</p>
<h2>Description:</h2>
<p>This update for vhostmd fixes the following issues:</p>
<p>Updated to version 1.2</p>
<ul>
<li>Fix actions using the 'free' command</li>
<li>Fix buffer accounting when generating metric XML</li>
<li>Change actions to retrieve vendor and product info</li>
<li>Add a 'unit' attribute to the metrics element</li>
<li>vif-stats.py: convert to Python3</li>
<li>conf: Update the 'VirtualizationVendor' action to strip any
URLs that may follow the vendor name (bsc#1230961)</li>
<li>Fix virtio transport to work with libvirt >= 9.7.0</li>
<li>Added hardening to systemd service (bsc#1181400)</li>
<li>spec: Don't replace user-modified dtd in /etc/vhostmd/ (bsc#1154838)</li>
<li>Relax virtio requirement in config file (bsc#1152803)</li>
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<p>Updated to version 1.1 (bsc#1129772)</p>
<ul>
<li>Merge libserialclient with libmetrics</li>
<li>Misc bug fixes and improvements</li>
</ul>
<h2>Patch Instructions:</h2>
<p>
To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended
installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".<br/>
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
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<li class="list-group-item">
openSUSE Leap 15.6
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<code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-2024-4416=1 openSUSE-SLE-15.6-2024-4416=1</code>
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Server Applications Module 15-SP6
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<code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Server-Applications-15-SP6-2024-4416=1</code>
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<h2>Package List:</h2>
<ul>
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openSUSE Leap 15.6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)
<ul>
<li>vhostmd-1.2-150600.17.3.1</li>
<li>vm-dump-metrics-debuginfo-1.2-150600.17.3.1</li>
<li>vhostmd-debugsource-1.2-150600.17.3.1</li>
<li>libmetrics0-debuginfo-1.2-150600.17.3.1</li>
<li>vm-dump-metrics-1.2-150600.17.3.1</li>
<li>libmetrics-devel-1.2-150600.17.3.1</li>
<li>libmetrics0-1.2-150600.17.3.1</li>
<li>vhostmd-debuginfo-1.2-150600.17.3.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
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Server Applications Module 15-SP6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
<ul>
<li>vhostmd-1.2-150600.17.3.1</li>
<li>vm-dump-metrics-debuginfo-1.2-150600.17.3.1</li>
<li>vhostmd-debugsource-1.2-150600.17.3.1</li>
<li>vm-dump-metrics-1.2-150600.17.3.1</li>
<li>vhostmd-debuginfo-1.2-150600.17.3.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
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<h2>References:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1129772">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1129772</a>
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<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1152803">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1152803</a>
</li>
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<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1154838">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1154838</a>
</li>
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<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1181400">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1181400</a>
</li>
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<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1230961">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1230961</a>
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