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openSUSE Leap 15.2: 2020:1770-1 Important: Singularity Path Overwrite Issue

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Calendar Grey October 29, 2020
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
openSUSE Security Patch resolves critical vulnerability associated with directory traversal in file access. Find additional details here.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update for singularity fixes the following issues:

Update to new version 3.6.4:

- CVE-2020-15229: Due to insecure handling of path traversal and the lack

of path sanitization within unsquashfs, it is possible to

overwrite/create files on the host filesystem during the extraction of a

crafted squashfs filesystem (boo#1177901).

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 15.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2020-1770=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (x86_64):

singularity-3.6.4-lp152.2.9.1

singularity-debuginfo-3.6.4-lp152.2.9.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-15229.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1177901

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:1770-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2

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