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openSUSE Leap 15.0: Security Update for openslp Memory Issue

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Calendar Grey July 14, 2018
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openSUSE releases important openslp patch to mitigate memory overflow threat and possible remote execution vulnerabilities.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update for openslp fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2017-17833: Prevent heap-related memory corruption issue which may

have manifested itself as a denial-of-service or a remote code-execution

vulnerability (bsc#1090638)

- Prevent out of bounds reads in message parsing

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service code execution important memory issue openslp

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-2018-725=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (i586 x86_64):

openslp-2.0.0-lp150.5.3.1

openslp-debuginfo-2.0.0-lp150.5.3.1

openslp-debugsource-2.0.0-lp150.5.3.1

openslp-devel-2.0.0-lp150.5.3.1

openslp-server-2.0.0-lp150.5.3.1

openslp-server-debuginfo-2.0.0-lp150.5.3.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (x86_64):

openslp-32bit-2.0.0-lp150.5.3.1

openslp-32bit-debuginfo-2.0.0-lp150.5.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-17833.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1090638

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:1958-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.0

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service code execution important memory issue openslp

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