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openSUSE Leap 42.3: 2018:2966-1 Critical: zsh Exec Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey October 2, 2018
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
An important openSUSE patch resolves 5 security vulnerabilities in zsh, tackling issues like buffer overflows and execution weaknesses.
An update that solves 5 vulnerabilities and has four fixes is now available.

Description

This update for zsh to version 5.6.2 fixes the following issues:

These security issues were fixed:

- CVE-2018-0502: The beginning of a #! script file was mishandled,

potentially leading to an execve call to a program named on the second

line (bsc#1107296)

- CVE-2018-13259: Shebang lines exceeding 64 characters were truncated,

potentially leading to an execve call to a program name that is a

substring of the intended one (bsc#1107294)

- CVE-2018-1100: Prevent stack-based buffer overflow in the

utils.c:checkmailpath function that allowed local attackers to execute

arbitrary code in the context of another user (bsc#1089030).

- CVE-2018-1071: Prevent stack-based buffer overflow in the

exec.c:hashcmd() function that allowed local attackers to cause a denial

of service (bsc#1084656).

- CVE-2018-1083: Prevent buffer overflow in the shell autocomplete

functionality that allowed local unprivileged users to create a

...

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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-2018-1094=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (x86_64):

zsh-5.6.2-9.6.1

zsh-debuginfo-5.6.2-9.6.1

zsh-debugsource-5.6.2-9.6.1

zsh-htmldoc-5.6.2-9.6.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-0502.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1071.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1083.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1100.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-13259.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1019130

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1084656

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1087026

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1089030

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1107294

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1107296

https://bugzilla.suse.com/900424

https://bugzilla.suse.com/934175

https://bugzilla.suse.com/998858

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:2966-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3 le.

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