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openSUSE: 2020:1868-1 Critical: Salt Security Update with Credential Fixes

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Calendar Grey November 7, 2020
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Important openSUSE upgrade for salt addresses multiple concerns and integrates eight crucial patches for both security and performance enhancements.
An update that solves three vulnerabilities and has 7 fixes is now available.

Description

This update for salt fixes the following issues:

- Avoid regression on "salt-master": set passphrase for salt-ssh keys to

empty string (bsc#1178485)

- 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...

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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-2020-1868=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (noarch):

salt-bash-completion-3000-lp151.5.30.1

salt-fish-completion-3000-lp151.5.30.1

salt-zsh-completion-3000-lp151.5.30.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (x86_64):

python2-salt-3000-lp151.5.30.1

python3-salt-3000-lp151.5.30.1

salt-3000-lp151.5.30.1

salt-api-3000-lp151.5.30.1

salt-cloud-3000-lp151.5.30.1

salt-doc-3000-lp151.5.30.1

salt-master-3000-lp151.5.30.1

salt-minion-3000-lp151.5.30.1

salt-proxy-3000-lp151.5.30.1

salt-ssh-3000-lp151.5.30.1

salt-standalone-formulas-configuration-3000-lp151.5.30.1

salt-syndic-3000-lp151.5.30.1

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

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1178485

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:1868-1
Rating: critical
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.1 le.

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