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openSUSE Leap 42.3: 2018:1770-1 Moderate: Cobbler Shell Escape

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Calendar Grey June 21, 2018
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
New patch released for openSUSE, resolving cobbler's vulnerabilities and boosting system performance with four improvements.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has three fixes is now available.

Description

This update for cobbler fixes the following issues:

The following security issue has been fixed:

- CVE-2017-1000469: Escape shell parameters provided by the user for the

reposync action. (bsc#1074594)

Additionally, the following non-security issues have been fixed:

- Fix signature for SLES15. (bsc#1075014)

- Detect if there is already another instance of "cobbler sync" running

and exit with failure if so. (bsc#1081714)

- Add SLES 15 distro profile. (bsc#1090205)

- Require tftp(server) instead of atftp.

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

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-2018-655=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (noarch):

cobbler-2.6.6-14.1

cobbler-tests-2.6.6-14.1

cobbler-web-2.6.6-14.1

koan-2.6.6-14.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-1000469.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1074594

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1075014

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1081714

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1090205

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:1770-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3 le.

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