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openSUSE 13.2: 2015:0487-1 Critical: osc Command Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey March 12, 2015
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Resolution for crucial osc vulnerability CVE-2015-0779 now released on openSUSE. Implement the upgrade to protect your environment.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

osc was updated to fix a security issue and some non-security bugs.

osc was updated to 0.151.0, fixing the following vulnerability:

* fixed shell command injection via crafted _service files CVE-2015-0778

boo#901643

The following non-security bugs were fixed:

* fix times when data comes from OBS backend

* support updateing the link in target package for submit requests

* various minor bugfixes

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Topics Covered

security advisory update security fix important openSUSE shell injection osc

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE 13.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2015-224=1

- openSUSE 13.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2015-224=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List

- openSUSE 13.2 (noarch):

osc-0.151.0-8.1

- openSUSE 13.1 (noarch):

osc-0.151.0-2.24.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0778.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=901643

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2015:0486-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE 13.2 openSUSE 13.1 .

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