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openSUSE Leap 15.1 Security Update: 2020:0036-1 Moderate Race Condition Fix

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Calendar Grey January 13, 2020
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
openSUSE Patch Update resolves a timing issue in rubygem-excon, impacting openSUSE Leap 15.1. Critical update ready for installation.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update for rubygem-excon fixes the following issues:

CVE-2019-16779 (boo#1159342): Fix a race condition around persistent

connections, where a connection, which was interrupted, would leave data

on the socket. Subsequent requests would then read this data, returning

content from the previous response.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update threat race condition openSUSE rubygem-excon

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-2020-36=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (x86_64):

ruby2.5-rubygem-excon-0.59.0-lp151.3.3.1

ruby2.5-rubygem-excon-doc-0.59.0-lp151.3.3.1

ruby2.5-rubygem-excon-testsuite-0.59.0-lp151.3.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-16779.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1159342

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:0036-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.1

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update threat race condition openSUSE rubygem-excon

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