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openSUSE Leap 15.0: 2018:4174-1 Important: Salt Security Issues

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Calendar Grey December 18, 2018
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An update for Salt has been released, addressing crucial vulnerabilities such as authentication bypass and directory traversal flaws in openSUSE systems.
An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has 5 fixes is now available

Description

This update for salt fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed:

- CVE-2018-15750: Fixed directory traversal vulnerability in salt-api

(bsc#1113698).

- CVE-2018-15751: Fixed remote authentication bypass in salt-api(netapi)

that allows to execute arbitrary commands (bsc#1113699).

Non-security issues fixed:

- Improved handling of LDAP group id. gid is no longer treated as a

string, which could have lead to faulty group creations (bsc#1113784).

- Fixed async call to process manager (bsc#1110938)

- Fixed OS arch detection when RPM is not installed (bsc#1114197)

- Crontab module fix: file attributes option missing (bsc#1114824)

- Fix git_pillar merging across multiple __env__ repositories (bsc#1112874)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

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-2018-1569=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (x86_64):

python2-salt-2018.3.0-lp150.3.17.1

python3-salt-2018.3.0-lp150.3.17.1

salt-2018.3.0-lp150.3.17.1

salt-api-2018.3.0-lp150.3.17.1

salt-cloud-2018.3.0-lp150.3.17.1

salt-doc-2018.3.0-lp150.3.17.1

salt-master-2018.3.0-lp150.3.17.1

salt-minion-2018.3.0-lp150.3.17.1

salt-proxy-2018.3.0-lp150.3.17.1

salt-ssh-2018.3.0-lp150.3.17.1

salt-syndic-2018.3.0-lp150.3.17.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (noarch):

salt-bash-completion-2018.3.0-lp150.3.17.1

salt-fish-completion-2018.3.0-lp150.3.17.1

salt-zsh-completion-2018.3.0-lp150.3.17.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-15750.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-15751.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1110938

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1112874

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1113698

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1113699

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1113784

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1114197

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1114824

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:4174-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.0 ble.

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