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openSUSE Leap 15.1: 2020:1037-1 Important: Singularity Security Issues

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Calendar Grey July 23, 2020
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openSUSE Leap 15.1 features a major singularity security update that resolves key vulnerabilities, essential for maintaining system integrity and thwarting exploits
An update that solves 5 vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available.

Description

This update for singularity fixes the following issues:

- New version 3.6.0. This version introduces a new signature format for

SIF images, and changes to the signing / verification code to address

the following security problems:

- CVE-2020-13845, boo#1174150 In Singularity 3.x versions below 3.6.0,

issues allow the ECL to be bypassed by a malicious user.

- CVE-2020-13846, boo#1174148 In Singularity 3.5 the --all / -a option

to singularity verify returns success even when some objects in a SIF

container are not signed,

or cannot be verified.

- CVE-2020-13847, boo#1174152 In Singularity 3.x versions below 3.6.0,

Singularity's sign and verify commands do not sign metadata found in

the global header or data object descriptors of a SIF file, allowing

an attacker to cause unexpected behavior. A signed container may

verify successfully, even when it has been modified in ways that could

be...

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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-2020-1037=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (x86_64):

singularity-3.6.0-lp151.2.6.1

singularity-debuginfo-3.6.0-lp151.2.6.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11328.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-19724.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-13845.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-13846.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-13847.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1125369

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1128598

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1159550

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1174148

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1174150

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1174152

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:1037-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.1 le.

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