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openSUSE: 2020:7102-1 Important: kernel Security Enhancement

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Calendar Grey December 21, 2018
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
The latest patch for keepalived in openSUSE addresses three critical vulnerabilities that impact both efficiency and reliability.
An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now available

Description

This update for keepalived to version 2.0.10 fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed (bsc#1015141):

- CVE-2018-19044: Fixed a check for pathnames with symlinks when writing

data to a temporary file upon a call to PrintData or PrintStats

- CVE-2018-19045: Fixed mode when creating new temporary files upon a call

to PrintData or PrintStats

- CVE-2018-19046: Fixed a check for existing plain files when writing data

to a temporary file upon a call to PrintData or PrintStats

Non-security issues fixed:

- Replace references to /var/adm/fillup-templates with new %_fillupdir

macro (boo#1069468)

- Use getaddrinfo instead of gethostbyname to workaround glibc

gethostbyname function buffer overflow (bsc#949238)

For the full list of changes refer to:

https://www.keepalived.org/changelog.html

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-2018-1575=1

- openSUSE Leap 15.0:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-1575=1

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-1575=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (x86_64):

keepalived-2.0.10-7.3.1

keepalived-debuginfo-2.0.10-7.3.1

keepalived-debugsource-2.0.10-7.3.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (x86_64):

keepalived-2.0.10-lp150.3.4.1

keepalived-debuginfo-2.0.10-lp150.3.4.1

keepalived-debugsource-2.0.10-lp150.3.4.1

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

keepalived-2.0.10-bp150.3.4.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-19044.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-19045.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-19046.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1015141

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1069468

https://bugzilla.suse.com/949238

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:4212-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3 openSUSE Leap 15.0 openSUSE Backports SLE-15 .

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