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openSUSE: 2020:1899-1 Moderate: sddm Access Control Issue

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Calendar Grey November 11, 2020
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A new update is now ready for openSUSE's sddm, aimed at mitigating access control vulnerabilities. Further information is included within.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update for sddm fixes the following issue:

- Fix X not having access control on startup (boo#1177201, CVE-2020-28049).

This update was imported from the openSUSE:Leap:15.2:Update update project.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update access control openSUSE sddm

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 Backports SLE-15-SP2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2020-1899=1

Package List

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP2 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

sddm-0.18.0-bp152.5.3.1

sddm-branding-SLE-0.18.0-bp152.5.3.1

sddm-branding-openSUSE-0.18.0-bp152.5.3.1

sddm-branding-upstream-0.18.0-bp152.5.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-28049.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1177201

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:1899-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP2

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update access control openSUSE sddm

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