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openSUSE Backports SLE-15: 2018:2797-2 Critical: Hylafax+ Remote Exec

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Calendar Grey September 22, 2018
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
openSUSE has issued a Security Update for hylafax+ addressing a severe remote code execution vulnerability, identified by Advisory ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:2797-2.
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 Backports SLE-15:

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

Package List

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

hylafax+-5.6.1-bp150.4.3.1

hylafax+-client-5.6.1-bp150.4.3.1

hylafax+-client-debuginfo-5.6.1-bp150.4.3.1

hylafax+-debuginfo-5.6.1-bp150.4.3.1

hylafax+-debugsource-5.6.1-bp150.4.3.1

libfaxutil5_6_1-5.6.1-bp150.4.3.1

libfaxutil5_6_1-debuginfo-5.6.1-bp150.4.3.1

References

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

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1109084

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:2797-2
Rating: critical
Affected Products: openSUSE Backports SLE-15

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