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openSUSE Leap 42.2: 2017:0023-1 Critical: Libgme Permissions Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey January 4, 2017
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New update released for libgme on openSUSE addressing 5 major vulnerabilities. Protect your system by installing this important patch.
An update that fixes 5 vulnerabilities is now available

Description

This update for libgme fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2016-9957, CVE-2016-9958, CVE-2016-9959, CVE-2016-9960,

CVE-2016-9961: Various issues were fixed in the handling of SPC music

files that could have been exploited for gaining privileges of desktop

users. [bsc#1015941]

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12:Update update project.

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security advisory important openSUSE Leap libgme privileges issue

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2017-13=1

- openSUSE Leap 42.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2017-13=1

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

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.2 (i586 x86_64):

libgme-debugsource-0.6.0-8.1

libgme-devel-0.6.0-8.1

libgme0-0.6.0-8.1

libgme0-debuginfo-0.6.0-8.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.2 (x86_64):

libgme0-32bit-0.6.0-8.1

libgme0-debuginfo-32bit-0.6.0-8.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (i586 x86_64):

libgme-debugsource-0.6.0-7.1

libgme-devel-0.6.0-7.1

libgme0-0.6.0-7.1

libgme0-debuginfo-0.6.0-7.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (x86_64):

libgme0-32bit-0.6.0-7.1

libgme0-debuginfo-32bit-0.6.0-7.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9957.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9958.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9959.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9960.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9961.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1015941

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2017:0022-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.2 openSUSE Leap 42.1 .

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