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openSUSE: 2019:1845-1 Moderate Update for zstd Compression Issues

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Calendar Grey August 12, 2019
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
This release for Fedora addresses a significant security vulnerability related to lz4 compression algorithms.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has two fixes is now available.

Description

This update for zstd to version 1.4.2 fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed:

- CVE-2019-11922: Fixed race condition in one-pass compression functions

that could allow out of bounds write (boo#1142941).

Non-security issues fixed:

- Added --[no-]compress-literals CLI flag to enable or disable literal

compression.

- Added new --rsyncable mode.

- Added handling of -f flag to zstdgrep.

- Added CPU load indicator for each file on -vv mode.

- Changed --no-progress flag to preserve the final summary.

- Added new command --adapt for compressed network piping of data adjusted

to the perceived network conditions.

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 15.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2019-1845=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (i586 x86_64):

libzstd-devel-1.4.2-lp151.3.3.1

libzstd-devel-static-1.4.2-lp151.3.3.1

libzstd1-1.4.2-lp151.3.3.1

libzstd1-debuginfo-1.4.2-lp151.3.3.1

zstd-1.4.2-lp151.3.3.1

zstd-debuginfo-1.4.2-lp151.3.3.1

zstd-debugsource-1.4.2-lp151.3.3.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (x86_64):

libzstd1-32bit-1.4.2-lp151.3.3.1

libzstd1-32bit-debuginfo-1.4.2-lp151.3.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11922.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1082318

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1133297

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1142941

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2019:1845-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.1 le.

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