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openSUSE: 2020:0400-1 Moderate: Cloud-Init Security Issues

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Calendar Grey March 29, 2020
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A recent openSUSE patch for cloud-init addresses multiple security vulnerabilities and improves the generation of random passwords.
An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available.

Description

This update for cloud-init fixes the following security issues:

- CVE-2020-8631: Replaced the theoretically predictable deterministic RNG

with the system RNG (bsc#1162937).

- CVE-2020-8632: Increased the default random password length from 9 to 20

(bsc#1162936).

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

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security issue random number generator openSUSE cloud-init

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-2020-400=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (x86_64):

cloud-init-19.4-lp151.2.15.1

cloud-init-config-suse-19.4-lp151.2.15.1

cloud-init-doc-19.4-lp151.2.15.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-8631.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-8632.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1162936

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1162937

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1163178

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:0400-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.1 le.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security issue random number generator openSUSE cloud-init

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