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openSUSE: 2021:0295-1 Important: librepo Path Issue Moderate Fix

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Calendar Grey February 15, 2021
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A crucial announcement for openSUSE addresses a vulnerability in librepo through improved path validation to ensure stronger security.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

This update for librepo fixes the following issues:

- Upgrade to 1.12.1

+ Validate path read from repomd.xml (bsc#1175475, CVE-2020-14352)

- Changes from 1.12.0

+ Prefer mirrorlist/metalink over baseurl (rh#1775184)

+ Decode package URL when using for local filename (rh#1817130)

+ Fix memory leak in lr_download_metadata() and lr_yum_download_remote()

+ Download sources work when at least one of specified is working

(rh#1775184)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15-SP2:Update update project.

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

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-2021-295=1

Package List

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

librepo-devel-1.12.1-bp152.2.6.1

librepo0-1.12.1-bp152.2.6.1

python3-librepo-1.12.1-bp152.2.6.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-14352.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1175475

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:0295-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP2 .

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