openSUSE Leap 42.3: Security Update 2019:1351-1 Critical Exploit Fix
opensuse
May 8, 2019
An update that solves 5 vulnerabilities and has 5 fixes is now available.
Description
This update for hostinfo, supportutils fixes the following issues:
Security issues fixed for supportutils:
- CVE-2018-19640: Fixed an issue where users could kill arbitrary
processes (bsc#1118463).
- CVE-2018-19638: Fixed an issue where users could overwrite arbitrary log
files (bsc#1118460).
- CVE-2018-19639: Fixed a code execution if run with -v (bsc#1118462).
- CVE-2018-19637: Fixed an issue where static temporary filename could
allow overwriting of files (bsc#1117776).
- CVE-2018-19636: Fixed a local root exploit via inclusion of attacker
controlled shell script (bsc#1117751).
Other issues fixed for supportutils:
- Fixed invalid exit code commands (bsc#1125666)
- SUSE separation in supportconfig (bsc#1125623)
- Clarified supportconfig(8) -x option (bsc#1115245)
- supportconfig: 3.0.127
- btrfs filesystem usage
- List products.d
- Dump lsof errors - Added ha commands for corosync
- Dumped find errors in...
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Topics Covered
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-2019-1351=1
Package List
- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (noarch):
hostinfo-1.0.1-21.3.1
References
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-19636.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-19637.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-19638.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-19639.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-19640.html
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1054979
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1099498
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1115245
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1117751
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1117776
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1118460
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1118462
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1118463
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1125623
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1125666
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2019:1351-1
Rating: important
Affected Products:
openSUSE Leap 42.3
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Topics Covered
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