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openSUSE Leap 42.1 & 42.2: 2017:0621-1 Important Munin Patch

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Calendar Grey March 7, 2017
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A significant patch for munin tackles severe vulnerabilities in openSUSE Leap. Make sure your system is updated!
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

This update for munin fixes the following issues:

- An attacker has been able to write arbitrary local files with the

permissions of the web server, by using parameter injection

(boo#1026539, CVE-2017-6188)

- The MySQL plugin has been fixed to work correctly against MySQL 5.5 on

Leap 42.1

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Topics Covered

security advisory important update openSUSE parameter injection munin

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-2017-310=1

- openSUSE Leap 42.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2017-310=1

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

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.2 (noarch):

munin-2.0.25-9.1

munin-node-2.0.25-9.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (noarch):

munin-2.0.25-7.1

munin-node-2.0.25-7.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-6188.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1026539

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2017:0621-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.2 openSUSE Leap 42.1 .

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Topics Covered

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