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openSUSE Leap 15.1: openSUSE-SU-2020:0124-1 Important: apt-cacher-ng Update

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Calendar Grey January 29, 2020
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
openSUSE releases patches addressing vulnerabilities in apt-cacher-ng. Implement security enhancements immediately.
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

Description

This update for apt-cacher-ng fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2019-18899: Fixed a symlink attack which could allow to overwrite

arbitrary data (boo#1157703).

- CVE-2020-5202: Fixed an information leak if a local user won a race

condition to listen to localhost:3142 (boo#1157706).

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Topics Covered

security advisory information leak symlink attack important openSUSE apt-cacher-ng

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-2020-124=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (x86_64):

apt-cacher-ng-3.1-lp151.3.3.1

apt-cacher-ng-debuginfo-3.1-lp151.3.3.1

apt-cacher-ng-debugsource-3.1-lp151.3.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-18899.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-5202.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1157703

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1157706

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:0124-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.1

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Topics Covered

security advisory information leak symlink attack important openSUSE apt-cacher-ng

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