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openSUSE Leap 15.0: 2018:1893-1 Moderate: zsh Buffer Overflow Fixes

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Calendar Grey July 6, 2018
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Fedora releases a critical patch for bash, fixing four weaknesses categorized as high risk.
An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now available.

Description

This update for zsh to version 5.5 fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed:

- CVE-2018-1100: Fixes a buffer overflow in utils.c:checkmailpath() that

can lead to local arbitrary code execution (bsc#1089030)

- CVE-2018-1071: Fixed a stack-based buffer overflow in exec.c:hashcmd()

(bsc#1084656)

- CVE-2018-1083: Fixed a stack-based buffer overflow in

gen_matches_files() at compctl.c (bsc#1087026)

Non-security issues fixed:

- The effect of the NO_INTERACTIVE_COMMENTS option extends into $(...) and

`...` command substitutions when used on the command line.

- The 'exec' and 'command' precommand modifiers, and options to them, are

now parsed after parameter expansion.

- Functions executed by ZLE widgets no longer have their standard input

closed, but redirected from /dev/null instead.

- There is an option WARN_NESTED_VAR, a companion to the existing

WARN_CREATE_GLOBAL that causes a warning if a function updates a

...

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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 15.0:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-699=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (x86_64):

zsh-5.5-lp150.2.3.1

zsh-debuginfo-5.5-lp150.2.3.1

zsh-debugsource-5.5-lp150.2.3.1

zsh-htmldoc-5.5-lp150.2.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1071.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1083.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1100.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1084656

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1087026

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1089030

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:1893-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.0

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