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openSUSE Leap 42.2: 2017-2111-1 Important: Libzypp and Zypper Fixes

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Calendar Grey August 9, 2017
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Updates addressing vulnerabilities in libzypp and zypper significantly boost the security of openSUSE Leap 42.2 through critical patches.
An update that solves three vulnerabilities and has 6 fixes is now available.

Description

The Software Update Stack was updated to receive fixes and enhancements.

libzypp:

Security issues fixed:

- CVE-2017-7435, CVE-2017-7436, CVE-2017-9269: Fix GPG check workflows,

mainly for unsigned repositories and packages. (bsc#1045735, bsc#1038984)

Bug fixes:

- Re-probe on refresh if the repository type changes. (bsc#1048315)

- Propagate proper error code to DownloadProgressReport. (bsc#1047785)

- Allow to trigger an appdata refresh unconditionally. (bsc#1009745)

- Support custom repo variables defined in /etc/zypp/vars.d.

- Adapt loop mounting of ISO images. (bsc#1038132, bsc#1033236)

- Fix potential crash if repository has no baseurl. (bsc#1043218)

zypper:

- Adapt download callback to report and handle unsigned packages.

(bsc#1038984)

- Report missing/optional files as 'not found' rather than 'error'.

(bsc#1047785)

- Document support for custom repository variables defined in

/etc/zypp/vars.d.

- Emphasize...

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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-2017-893=1

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

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.2 (i586 x86_64):

libzypp-16.15.2-5.9.1

libzypp-debuginfo-16.15.2-5.9.1

libzypp-debugsource-16.15.2-5.9.1

libzypp-devel-16.15.2-5.9.1

libzypp-devel-doc-16.15.2-5.9.1

zypper-1.13.30-5.9.1

zypper-debuginfo-1.13.30-5.9.1

zypper-debugsource-1.13.30-5.9.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.2 (noarch):

zypper-aptitude-1.13.30-5.9.1

zypper-log-1.13.30-5.9.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7435.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7436.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-9269.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1009745

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1031756

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1033236

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1038132

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1038984

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1043218

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1045735

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1047785

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1048315

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2017:2111-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.2 le.

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