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openSUSE: 2021:4209-1 Important: GEGL Shell Expansion Issue Fix

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Calendar Grey December 31, 2021
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A significant patch for Fedora addresses a vital command injection vulnerability in gimp. Make sure to update your system without delay.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

This update for gegl fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2021-45463: fixed shell expansion via crafted pathname in the

ImageMagick convert fallback (bsc#1194045).

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security advisory update threat important openSUSE gegl shell expansion

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-15.3-2021-4209=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

gegl-0.4.16-3.3.1

gegl-0_4-0.4.16-3.3.1

gegl-0_4-debuginfo-0.4.16-3.3.1

gegl-debuginfo-0.4.16-3.3.1

gegl-debugsource-0.4.16-3.3.1

gegl-devel-0.4.16-3.3.1

gegl-doc-0.4.16-3.3.1

libgegl-0_4-0-0.4.16-3.3.1

libgegl-0_4-0-debuginfo-0.4.16-3.3.1

typelib-1_0-Gegl-0_4-0.4.16-3.3.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (x86_64):

libgegl-0_4-0-32bit-0.4.16-3.3.1

libgegl-0_4-0-32bit-debuginfo-0.4.16-3.3.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (noarch):

gegl-0_4-lang-0.4.16-3.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-45463.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1194045

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:4209-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.3 .

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