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openSUSE Leap 42.3: 2018:1419-1 Moderate: Bash Code Execution

opensuse
Calendar Grey May 25, 2018
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
An announcement for openSUSE resolves two significant vulnerabilities in bash regarded with moderate severity. Discover further details.
An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available.

Description

This update for bash fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed:

- CVE-2016-7543: A code execution possibility via SHELLOPTS+PS4 variable

was fixed (bsc#1001299)

- CVE-2016-0634: Arbitrary code execution via malicious hostname was fixed

(bsc#1000396)

Non-security issues fixed:

- Fix repeating self-calling of traps due the combination of a

non-interactive shell, a trap handler for SIGINT, an external process in

the trap handler, and a SIGINT within the trap after the external

process runs. (bsc#1086247)

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

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update code execution security fix bash openSUSE

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-516=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):

bash-4.3-83.6.1

bash-debuginfo-4.3-83.6.1

bash-debugsource-4.3-83.6.1

bash-devel-4.3-83.6.1

bash-loadables-4.3-83.6.1

bash-loadables-debuginfo-4.3-83.6.1

libreadline6-6.3-83.6.1

libreadline6-debuginfo-6.3-83.6.1

readline-devel-6.3-83.6.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (x86_64):

bash-debuginfo-32bit-4.3-83.6.1

libreadline6-32bit-6.3-83.6.1

libreadline6-debuginfo-32bit-6.3-83.6.1

readline-devel-32bit-6.3-83.6.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (noarch):

bash-doc-4.3-83.6.1

bash-lang-4.3-83.6.1

readline-doc-6.3-83.6.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0634.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7543.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1000396

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1001299

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1086247

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:1419-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3 le.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update code execution security fix bash openSUSE

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