openSUSE Leap 42.3: 2018:2296-1 Moderate: Libsoup Security Issues Fix
opensuse
August 10, 2018
An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available.
Description
This update for libsoup fixes the following issues:
Security issue fixed:
- CVE-2018-12910: Fix crash when handling empty hostnames (bsc#1100097).
- CVE-2017-2885: Fix chunk decoding buffer overrun that could be exploited
against either clients or servers (bsc#1052916).
Bug fixes:
- bsc#1086036: translation-update-upstream commented out for Leap
This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP2:Update update project.
Topics Covered
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-2018-856=1
Package List
- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):
libsoup-2_4-1-2.62.2-8.1
libsoup-2_4-1-debuginfo-2.62.2-8.1
libsoup-debugsource-2.62.2-8.1
libsoup-devel-2.62.2-8.1
typelib-1_0-Soup-2_4-2.62.2-8.1
- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (noarch):
libsoup-lang-2.62.2-8.1
- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (x86_64):
libsoup-2_4-1-32bit-2.62.2-8.1
libsoup-2_4-1-debuginfo-32bit-2.62.2-8.1
libsoup-devel-32bit-2.62.2-8.1
References
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-2885.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12910.html
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1052916
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1086036
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1100097
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:2296-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products:
openSUSE Leap 42.3
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Topics Covered
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