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openSUSE Leap 15.2: 2021:1071-1 Important: Caribou Segfault Fix

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Calendar Grey July 21, 2021
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Crucial news for caribou users on openSUSE Leap 15.2 addresses critical segmentation faults. Enhance your security by following the outlined steps.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has one errata is now available

Description

This update for caribou fixes the following issues:

Security issue fixed:

- CVE-2021-3567: Fixed a segfault when attempting to use shifted

characters (bsc#1186617).

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

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue important segfault openSUSE caribou

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-2021-1071=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (x86_64):

caribou-0.4.21-lp152.7.3.1

caribou-common-0.4.21-lp152.7.3.1

caribou-debuginfo-0.4.21-lp152.7.3.1

caribou-debugsource-0.4.21-lp152.7.3.1

caribou-devel-0.4.21-lp152.7.3.1

caribou-gtk-module-common-0.4.21-lp152.7.3.1

caribou-gtk2-module-0.4.21-lp152.7.3.1

caribou-gtk2-module-debuginfo-0.4.21-lp152.7.3.1

caribou-gtk3-module-0.4.21-lp152.7.3.1

caribou-gtk3-module-debuginfo-0.4.21-lp152.7.3.1

libcaribou0-0.4.21-lp152.7.3.1

libcaribou0-debuginfo-0.4.21-lp152.7.3.1

typelib-1_0-Caribou-1_0-0.4.21-lp152.7.3.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (noarch):

caribou-lang-0.4.21-lp152.7.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3567.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1186617

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1187112

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:1071-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2 ble.

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security advisory security issue important segfault openSUSE caribou

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