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openSUSE Leap 15.1: 2020:0506-1 Moderate: mgetty DoS Issue

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Calendar Grey April 11, 2020
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A security patch for mgetty resolves a critical denial of service issue. Installation instructions are included.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has one errata is now available.

Description

This update for mgetty fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2019-1010190: Fixed a denial of service which could be caused by a

local attacker in putwhitespan() (bsc#1142770).

- Fixed a permission issue which have resulted in build failures

(bsc#1168170).

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

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate denial of service update patch mgetty 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-2020-506=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (x86_64):

g3utils-1.1.37-lp151.4.3.1

g3utils-debuginfo-1.1.37-lp151.4.3.1

mgetty-1.1.37-lp151.4.3.1

mgetty-debuginfo-1.1.37-lp151.4.3.1

mgetty-debugsource-1.1.37-lp151.4.3.1

sendfax-1.1.37-lp151.4.3.1

sendfax-debuginfo-1.1.37-lp151.4.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-1010190.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1142770

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1168170

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:0506-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.1 le.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate denial of service update patch mgetty openSUSE

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