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openSUSE Security Update: 2019:1051-1 Addresses Moderate Kauth Flaw

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Calendar Grey March 25, 2019
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
The recent kauth update addresses a medium-level vulnerability concerning the secure management of arguments within openSUSE.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update for kauth fixes the following issues:

Security issue fixed:

- CVE-2019-7443: Fixed an insecure handling of arguments in helpers by

removing the support of passing gui variants (bsc#1124863).

This update was imported from the openSUSE:Leap:15.0: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 Backports SLE-15:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2019-1051=1

Package List

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

kauth-debugsource-5.32.0-bp150.3.10.1

kauth-devel-5.32.0-bp150.3.10.1

kcoreaddons-5.32.0-bp150.3.3.1

kcoreaddons-debugsource-5.32.0-bp150.3.3.1

kcoreaddons-devel-5.32.0-bp150.3.3.1

kcoreaddons-devel-debuginfo-5.32.0-bp150.3.3.1

libKF5Auth5-5.32.0-bp150.3.10.1

libKF5Auth5-debuginfo-5.32.0-bp150.3.10.1

libKF5CoreAddons5-5.32.0-bp150.3.3.1

libKF5CoreAddons5-debuginfo-5.32.0-bp150.3.3.1

libpolkit-qt5-1-1-0.112.0-bp150.3.3.1

libpolkit-qt5-1-devel-0.112.0-bp150.3.3.1

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15 (aarch64_ilp32):

kauth-devel-64bit-5.32.0-bp150.3.10.1

kcoreaddons-devel-64bit-5.32.0-bp150.3.3.1

kcoreaddons-devel-64bit-debuginfo-5.32.0-bp150.3.3.1

libKF5Auth5-64bit-5.32.0-bp150.3.10.1

libKF5Auth5-64bit-debuginfo-5.32.0-bp150.3.10.1

libKF5CoreAddons5-64bit-5.32.0-bp150.3.3.1

libKF5CoreAddons5-64bit-debuginfo-5.32.0-bp150.3.3.1

libpolkit-qt5-1-1-64bit-0.112.0-bp150.3.3.1

libpolkit-qt5-1-devel-64bit-0.112.0-bp150.3.3.1

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15 (noarch):

kcoread...

Read the Full Advisory

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-7443.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1124863

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2019:1051-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Backports SLE-15

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