Recommended update for virt-utils

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2016:2727-1
Rating: low
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Affected Products:
  • SLES for SAP Applications 11-SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4

An update that has two fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for virt-utils provides the following fixes:

  • Call g_thread_init() to enable multi-threading for all of qemu tools. This fixes a segmentation fault when using qemu-nbd(8) to create file systems. (bsc#995727)
  • Fix potential segmentation fault when repeatedly attaching and detaching qcow2 volumes with qemu-nbd. (bsc#962079)

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:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4
    zypper in -t patch slessp4-virt-utils-12837=1
  • SLES for SAP Applications 11-SP4
    zypper in -t patch slessp4-virt-utils-12837=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 (s390x x86_64 i586 ppc64 ia64)
    • virt-utils-1.2.1-14.1
  • SLES for SAP Applications 11-SP4 (ppc64 x86_64)
    • virt-utils-1.2.1-14.1

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