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openSUSE Leap 42.3: 2018-2125-1 Moderate: Cinnamon Symlink Attack

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Calendar Grey July 28, 2018
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A patch for openSUSE addresses the symlink vulnerability in Cinnamon, resolving the issue denoted by CVE-2018-13054.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update for cinnamon fixes the following issues:

Security issue fixed:

- CVE-2018-13054: Fix symlink attack vulnerability (boo#1083067).

Bug fixes:

- Update to version 3.4.6 (changes since 3.4.4):

* osdWindow.js: Always check the theme node on first showing - an

actor's width isn't necessarily filled if it hasn't been explicitly

set, causing the first few activations of the OSD to not show an

accurate level bar.

* cs_default: Fix an incorrect button label (but preserve translations).

* main.js: Remove an obsolete Meta enum member reference.

* workspace.js: Use our normal prototype init method.

* workspace.js: Initalise WindowClone._zoomStep to 0.

* slideshow-applet: Fix a translation.

* cs_themes.py: Create the file "~/.icons/default/index.theme" and set

the selected cursor theme inside of it. This ensures other (non-gtk)

applications end up using the same theme (though they are required to

...

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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 42.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-767=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (x86_64):

cinnamon-3.4.6-2.3.1

cinnamon-debuginfo-3.4.6-2.3.1

cinnamon-debugsource-3.4.6-2.3.1

cinnamon-gschemas-3.4.6-2.3.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (noarch):

cinnamon-gschemas-branding-upstream-3.4.6-2.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-13054.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1083067

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:2125-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3

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