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openSUSE: 2020:1833-1 Critical: Salt Security Issues Resolved

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Calendar Grey November 5, 2020
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A crucial update for openSUSE regarding Salt addresses multiple concerns with important improvements throughout the system.
An update that solves three vulnerabilities and has 6 fixes is now available.

Description

This update for salt fixes the following issues:

- Properly validate eauth credentials and tokens on SSH calls made by Salt

API (bsc#1178319, bsc#1178362, bsc#1178361, CVE-2020-25592,

CVE-2020-17490, CVE-2020-16846)

- Fix disk.blkid to avoid unexpected keyword argument '__pub_user'.

(bsc#1177867)

- Ensure virt.update stop_on_reboot is updated with its default value.

- Do not break package building for systemd OSes.

- Drop wrong mock from chroot unit test.

- Support systemd versions with dot. (bsc#1176294)

- Fix for grains.test_core unit test.

- Fix file/directory user and group ownership containing UTF-8 characters.

(bsc#1176024)

- Several changes to virtualization:

* Fix virt update when cpu and memory are changed.

* Memory Tuning GSoC.

* Properly fix memory setting regression in virt.update.

* Expose libvirt on_reboot in virt states.

- Support transactional systems (MicroOS).

- zypperpkg module ignores...

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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 15.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2020-1833=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (x86_64):

python2-salt-3000-lp152.3.15.1

python3-salt-3000-lp152.3.15.1

salt-3000-lp152.3.15.1

salt-api-3000-lp152.3.15.1

salt-cloud-3000-lp152.3.15.1

salt-doc-3000-lp152.3.15.1

salt-master-3000-lp152.3.15.1

salt-minion-3000-lp152.3.15.1

salt-proxy-3000-lp152.3.15.1

salt-ssh-3000-lp152.3.15.1

salt-standalone-formulas-configuration-3000-lp152.3.15.1

salt-syndic-3000-lp152.3.15.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (noarch):

salt-bash-completion-3000-lp152.3.15.1

salt-fish-completion-3000-lp152.3.15.1

salt-zsh-completion-3000-lp152.3.15.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-16846.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-17490.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-25592.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1159670

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1175987

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1176024

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1176294

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1176397

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1177867

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1178319

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1178361

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1178362

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:1833-1
Rating: critical
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2 le.

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