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openSUSE: 2019:2672-1 Moderate: Permissions Security Update

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Calendar Grey December 11, 2019
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A new security patch for openSUSE has been released addressing medium severity permission vulnerabilities. Discover the details of the update immediately.
An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available.

Description

This update for permissions fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2019-3688: Changed wrong ownership in /usr/sbin/pinger to root:squid

which could have allowed a squid user to gain persistence by changing

the binary (bsc#1093414).

- CVE-2019-3690: Fixed a privilege escalation through untrusted symbolic

links (bsc#1150734).

- Fixed a regression which caused sagmentation fault (bsc#1157198).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15-SP1:Update update project.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update privilege escalation permissions openSUSE

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-2019-2672=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (i586 x86_64):

permissions-20181116-lp151.4.9.1

permissions-debuginfo-20181116-lp151.4.9.1

permissions-debugsource-20181116-lp151.4.9.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (noarch):

permissions-zypp-plugin-20181116-lp151.4.9.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-3688.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-3690.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1093414

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1150734

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1157198

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2019:2672-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.1 le.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update privilege escalation permissions openSUSE

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