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openSUSE Leap 15.1: openSUSE-SU-2020:0744-1 Moderate: Trousers Local Attack

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Calendar Grey May 29, 2020
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A patch for Ubuntu addresses a significant remote vulnerability in gdm to enhance your device's security.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update for trousers fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2019-18898: Fixed a local symlink attack where a rogue tss user

could have gain ownership of arbitrary files in the system during

installation/update of the trousers package (bsc#1157651).

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

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate package update local attack openSUSE trousers

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-2020-744=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (i586 x86_64):

libtspi1-0.3.14-lp151.4.6.1

libtspi1-debuginfo-0.3.14-lp151.4.6.1

trousers-0.3.14-lp151.4.6.1

trousers-debuginfo-0.3.14-lp151.4.6.1

trousers-debugsource-0.3.14-lp151.4.6.1

trousers-devel-0.3.14-lp151.4.6.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (x86_64):

libtspi1-32bit-0.3.14-lp151.4.6.1

libtspi1-32bit-debuginfo-0.3.14-lp151.4.6.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-18898.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1157651

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:0744-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.1

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate package update local attack openSUSE trousers

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