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openSUSE Leap 42.3: 2019:0268-1 Important: Systemd DoS Fix

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Calendar Grey March 1, 2019
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Significant announcement for Fedora systemd resolves a specific security flaw alongside several improvements, reinforcing system dependability and protection.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has 8 fixes is now available.

Description

This update for systemd fixes the following issues:

Security vulnerability fixed:

- CVE-2019-6454: Fixed a crash of PID1 by sending specially crafted D-BUS

message on the system bus by an unprivileged user (bsc#1125352)

Other bug fixes and changes:

- journal-remote: set a limit on the number of fields in a message

- journal-remote: verify entry length from header

- journald: set a limit on the number of fields (1k)

- journald: do not store the iovec entry for process commandline on stack

- core: include Found state in device dumps

- device: fix serialization and deserialization of DeviceFound

- fix path in btrfs rule (#6844)

- assemble multidevice btrfs volumes without external tools (#6607)

(bsc#1117025)

- Update systemd-system.conf.xml (bsc#1122000)

- units: inform user that the default target is started after exiting from

rescue or emergency mode

- manager: don't skip sigchld handler for main and control pid for

...

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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-2019-268=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):

libsystemd0-228-68.1

libsystemd0-debuginfo-228-68.1

libsystemd0-mini-228-68.1

libsystemd0-mini-debuginfo-228-68.1

libudev-devel-228-68.1

libudev-mini-devel-228-68.1

libudev-mini1-228-68.1

libudev-mini1-debuginfo-228-68.1

libudev1-228-68.1

libudev1-debuginfo-228-68.1

nss-myhostname-228-68.1

nss-myhostname-debuginfo-228-68.1

nss-mymachines-228-68.1

nss-mymachines-debuginfo-228-68.1

systemd-228-68.1

systemd-debuginfo-228-68.1

systemd-debugsource-228-68.1

systemd-devel-228-68.1

systemd-logger-228-68.1

systemd-mini-228-68.1

systemd-mini-debuginfo-228-68.1

systemd-mini-debugsource-228-68.1

systemd-mini-devel-228-68.1

systemd-mini-sysvinit-228-68.1

systemd-sysvinit-228-68.1

udev-228-68.1

udev-debuginfo-228-68.1

udev-mini-228-68.1

udev-mini-debuginfo-228-68.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (x86_64):

libsystemd0-32bit-228-68.1

libsystemd0-debuginfo-32bit-228-68.1

libudev1-32bit-228-68.1

libudev1-debuginfo-32bit-228-68.1

nss-myhostname-32bit-228-68.1

nss-myhostname-debuginfo-32bit-228-68.1

systemd-32bit-22...

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References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-6454.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1111498

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1117025

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1117382

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1120658

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1122000

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1122344

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1123333

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1123892

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1125352

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2019:0268-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3 le.

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