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openSUSE Leap 42.3: 2017:2153-1 Important Buffer Overflow Fix

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Calendar Grey August 12, 2017
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
The latest update for openSUSE rectifies a critical libsoup concern, tackling buffer overflow vulnerabilities and boosting overall security.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

This update for libsoup fixes the following issues:

- A bug in the HTTP Chunked Encoding code has been fixed that could have

been exploited by attackers to cause a stack-based buffer overflow in

client or server code running libsoup (bsc#1052916, CVE-2017-2885).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP2:Update update project.

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow software fix important update libsoup openSUSE patch instructions

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 42.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2017-914=1

- openSUSE Leap 42.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2017-914=1

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

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):

libsoup-2_4-1-2.54.1-5.1

libsoup-2_4-1-debuginfo-2.54.1-5.1

libsoup-debugsource-2.54.1-5.1

libsoup-devel-2.54.1-5.1

typelib-1_0-Soup-2_4-2.54.1-5.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (noarch):

libsoup-lang-2.54.1-5.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (x86_64):

libsoup-2_4-1-32bit-2.54.1-5.1

libsoup-2_4-1-debuginfo-32bit-2.54.1-5.1

libsoup-devel-32bit-2.54.1-5.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.2 (i586 x86_64):

libsoup-2_4-1-2.54.1-2.3.1

libsoup-2_4-1-debuginfo-2.54.1-2.3.1

libsoup-debugsource-2.54.1-2.3.1

libsoup-devel-2.54.1-2.3.1

typelib-1_0-Soup-2_4-2.54.1-2.3.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.2 (x86_64):

libsoup-2_4-1-32bit-2.54.1-2.3.1

libsoup-2_4-1-debuginfo-32bit-2.54.1-2.3.1

libsoup-devel-32bit-2.54.1-2.3.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.2 (noarch):

libsoup-lang-2.54.1-2.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-2885.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1052916

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2017:2153-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3 openSUSE Leap 42.2 .

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security advisory buffer overflow software fix important update libsoup openSUSE patch instructions

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