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openSUSE Leap 15.3: 2021:3557-1 Moderate: Salt Malicious Code Injection

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Calendar Grey October 27, 2021
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Addresses a significant vulnerability in salt for openSUSE Leap 15.3 to thwart potential code execution attacks.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

This update for salt fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2021-21996: Exclude the full path of a download URL to prevent

injection of malicious code. (bsc#1190265)

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update moderate severity code injection openSUSE patch instructions salt

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-15.3-2021-3557=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

python3-salt-3002.2-50.1.15.1

salt-3002.2-50.1.15.1

salt-api-3002.2-50.1.15.1

salt-cloud-3002.2-50.1.15.1

salt-doc-3002.2-50.1.15.1

salt-master-3002.2-50.1.15.1

salt-minion-3002.2-50.1.15.1

salt-proxy-3002.2-50.1.15.1

salt-ssh-3002.2-50.1.15.1

salt-standalone-formulas-configuration-3002.2-50.1.15.1

salt-syndic-3002.2-50.1.15.1

salt-transactional-update-3002.2-50.1.15.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (noarch):

salt-bash-completion-3002.2-50.1.15.1

salt-fish-completion-3002.2-50.1.15.1

salt-zsh-completion-3002.2-50.1.15.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-21996.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1190265

Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:3557-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.3 .

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update moderate severity code injection openSUSE patch instructions salt

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