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openSUSE Leap 15.2: 2021:1545-2 Important: Bbb_Base Security Update

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Calendar Grey December 6, 2021
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Notice of a security patch for openSUSE Leap 15.2 addressing vulnerabilities in aaa_base classified as moderate risk.
An update that contains security fixes can now be installed

Description

This update for aaa_base fixes the following issues:

- Allowed ping and ICMP commands without CAP_NET_RAW (bsc#1174504).

- Add $HOME/.local/bin to PATH, if it exists (bsc#1192248).

- Fixed get_kernel_version.c to work also for recent kernels on the s390/X

platform (bsc#1191563).

- Support xz compressed kernel (bsc#1162581)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15: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 Leap 15.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2021-1544=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (i586 x86_64):

aaa_base-84.87+git20180409.04c9dae-lp152.14.10.1

aaa_base-debuginfo-84.87+git20180409.04c9dae-lp152.14.10.1

aaa_base-debugsource-84.87+git20180409.04c9dae-lp152.14.10.1

aaa_base-extras-84.87+git20180409.04c9dae-lp152.14.10.1

aaa_base-malloccheck-84.87+git20180409.04c9dae-lp152.14.10.1

aaa_base-wsl-84.87+git20180409.04c9dae-lp152.14.10.1

References

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1162581

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1174504

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1191563

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1192248

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:1544-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2 .

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