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openSUSE Leap 15.0 Advisory: 2019:0009-1 Important Singularity Exploit Fix

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Calendar Grey January 10, 2019
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
This revision pertains to a crucial remedy for the singularity suite within openSUSE, aimed at rectifying a localized privilege escalation vulnerability.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update for singularity to version 2.6.1 fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed:

- CVE-2018-19295: Fixed a local root exploit, related to joining arbitrary

mount namespaces (boo#1111411).

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-2019-9=1

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2019-9=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (x86_64):

libsingularity1-2.6.1-lp150.2.6.1

libsingularity1-debuginfo-2.6.1-lp150.2.6.1

singularity-2.6.1-lp150.2.6.1

singularity-debuginfo-2.6.1-lp150.2.6.1

singularity-debugsource-2.6.1-lp150.2.6.1

singularity-devel-2.6.1-lp150.2.6.1

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

libsingularity1-2.6.1-bp150.3.6.1

singularity-2.6.1-bp150.3.6.1

singularity-devel-2.6.1-bp150.3.6.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-19295.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1111411

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2019:0009-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.0 openSUSE Backports SLE-15

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