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openSUSE Leap 15.3 Important Salt Command Injection Fix

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Calendar Grey July 11, 2021
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
This patch tackles a significant security flaw related to salt, in addition to introducing enhancements and corrections for openSUSE Leap 15.3.
An update that solves one vulnerability, contains three features and has one errata is now available

Description

This update for salt fixes the following issues:

- Check if dpkgnotify is executable (bsc#1186674)

- Update to Salt release version 3002.2 (jsc#ECO-3212, jsc#SLE-18033,

jsc#SLE-18028)

- Drop support for Python2. Obsoletes `python2-salt` package

(jsc#SLE-18028)

- Fix issue parsing errors in ansiblegate state module

- Prevent command injection in the snapper module (bsc#1185281,

CVE-2021-31607)

- transactional_update: detect recursion in the executor

- Add subpackage `salt-transactional-update` (jsc#SLE-18033)

- Remove duplicate directories

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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 15.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.3-2021-1951=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

python3-salt-3002.2-8.41.8.1

salt-3002.2-8.41.8.1

salt-api-3002.2-8.41.8.1

salt-cloud-3002.2-8.41.8.1

salt-doc-3002.2-8.41.8.1

salt-master-3002.2-8.41.8.1

salt-minion-3002.2-8.41.8.1

salt-proxy-3002.2-8.41.8.1

salt-ssh-3002.2-8.41.8.1

salt-standalone-formulas-configuration-3002.2-8.41.8.1

salt-syndic-3002.2-8.41.8.1

salt-transactional-update-3002.2-8.41.8.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (noarch):

salt-bash-completion-3002.2-8.41.8.1

salt-fish-completion-3002.2-8.41.8.1

salt-zsh-completion-3002.2-8.41.8.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-31607.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1185281

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1186674

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:1951-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.3 ble.

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