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openSUSE Leap 15.3: 2021:3899-1 Moderate: Aaa_Base Security Patch

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Calendar Grey December 3, 2021
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
openSUSE Security Enhancement regarding aaa_base. Updates involve enhancements for traceroute functionalities and supporting kernel modifications.
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)

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-15.3-2021-3899=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

aaa_base-84.87+git20180409.04c9dae-3.52.1

aaa_base-debuginfo-84.87+git20180409.04c9dae-3.52.1

aaa_base-debugsource-84.87+git20180409.04c9dae-3.52.1

aaa_base-extras-84.87+git20180409.04c9dae-3.52.1

aaa_base-malloccheck-84.87+git20180409.04c9dae-3.52.1

aaa_base-wsl-84.87+git20180409.04c9dae-3.52.1

References

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1162581

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1174504

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1191563

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1192248

Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:3899-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.3 .

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