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openSUSE: 2020:1723-1 Moderate: Arbitrary Code Execution Fix in Kleopatra

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Calendar Grey October 24, 2020
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
openSUSE has released a security update for libxml2 addressing a moderate severity vulnerability that could lead to privilege escalation.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update for kleopatra fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2020-24972: Add upstream patch to prevent potential arbitrary code

execution (boo#1177932):

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security advisory update arbitrary code execution moderate severity software fix openSUSE kleopatra

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-2020-1723=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (noarch):

kleopatra-lang-18.12.3-lp151.2.4.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (x86_64):

kleopatra-18.12.3-lp151.2.4.1

kleopatra-debuginfo-18.12.3-lp151.2.4.1

kleopatra-debugsource-18.12.3-lp151.2.4.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-24972.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1177932

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:1723-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.1

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