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openSUSE: 2019:1230-1 Moderate: lxc Information Leak Fix

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Calendar Grey April 18, 2019
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A security patch for lxc resolves a data exposure vulnerability in openSUSE Backports SLE-15. Ensure your safety!
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update for lxc fixes the following issues:

The following security vulnerability was fixed:

- CVE-2018-6556: Fixed an information leak and possible open() side

effects to regular users via lxc-user-nic (boo#988348)

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-2019-1230=1

Package List

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

liblxc-devel-2.0.9-bp150.5.6.1

liblxc1-2.0.9-bp150.5.6.1

lxc-2.0.9-bp150.5.6.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-6556.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/988348

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2019:1230-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Backports SLE-15

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