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openSUSE Leap 15.0: 2018:2316-1 Moderate: lxc Information Leak

opensuse
Calendar Grey August 13, 2018
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Addresses a data exposure vulnerability in lxc on openSUSE Leap 15.0 with medium severity. Implement the patch to strengthen system safety.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update for lxc fixes the following issues:

The following security vulnerability was fixed:

- CVE-2018-6556: Fixed an information leak and possible open() side

effects to regular users via lxc-user-nic (boo#988348)

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-2018-865=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (x86_64):

liblxc-devel-2.0.9-lp150.2.6.1

liblxc1-2.0.9-lp150.2.6.1

liblxc1-debuginfo-2.0.9-lp150.2.6.1

lxc-2.0.9-lp150.2.6.1

lxc-debuginfo-2.0.9-lp150.2.6.1

lxc-debugsource-2.0.9-lp150.2.6.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-6556.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/988348

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:2316-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.0

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