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openSUSE: 2018:2797-1 Critical: Hylafax+ Remote Execution Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey September 21, 2018
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Important openSUSE patch resolves security vulnerabilities in hylafax+. Find installation instructions here!
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update for hylafax+ fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed in 5.6.1:

- CVE-2018-17141: multiple vulnerabilities affecting fax page reception in

JPEG format Specially crafted input may have allowed remote execution of

arbitrary code (boo#1109084)

Additionally, this update also contains all upstream corrections and

bugfixes in the 5.6.1 version, including:

- fix RFC2047 encoding by notify

- add jobcontrol PageSize feature

- don't wait forever after +FRH:3

- fix faxmail transition between a message and external types

- avoid pagehandling from introducing some unnecessary EOM signals

- improve proxy connection error handling and logging

- add initial ModemGroup limits feature

- pass the user's uid onto the session log file for sent faxes

- improve job waits to minimize triggers - add ProxyTaglineFormat and ProxyTSI features

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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-2018-1027=1

- openSUSE Leap 15.0:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-1027=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):

hylafax+-5.6.1-15.1

hylafax+-client-5.6.1-15.1

hylafax+-client-debuginfo-5.6.1-15.1

hylafax+-debuginfo-5.6.1-15.1

hylafax+-debugsource-5.6.1-15.1

libfaxutil5_6_1-5.6.1-15.1

libfaxutil5_6_1-debuginfo-5.6.1-15.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (x86_64):

hylafax+-5.6.1-lp150.5.6.1

hylafax+-client-5.6.1-lp150.5.6.1

hylafax+-client-debuginfo-5.6.1-lp150.5.6.1

hylafax+-debuginfo-5.6.1-lp150.5.6.1

hylafax+-debugsource-5.6.1-lp150.5.6.1

libfaxutil5_6_1-5.6.1-lp150.5.6.1

libfaxutil5_6_1-debuginfo-5.6.1-lp150.5.6.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-17141.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1109084

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:2797-1
Rating: critical
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3 openSUSE Leap 15.0

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