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openSUSE Leap 15.3: openSUSE-SU-2022:0054-1 moderate sphinx vulnerability

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Calendar Grey March 1, 2022
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A recent Sphinx enhancement addresses directory traversal vulnerabilities in openSUSE Leap 15.3. Find out the essential correction and the steps to apply it.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has one errata is now available

Description

This update for sphinx fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2020-29050: SphinxSearch in Sphinx Technologies Sphinx allows

directory traversal (in conjunction with CVE-2019-14511) because the

mysql client can be used for CALL SNIPPETS and load_file operations on a

full pathname (e.g., a file in the /etc directory). (boo#1195227)

- update to 2.0.6 release

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-2022-54=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (aarch64 i586 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

libsphinxclient-0_0_1-2.2.11-lp153.2.3.1

libsphinxclient-devel-2.2.11-lp153.2.3.1

sphinx-2.2.11-lp153.2.3.1

sphinx-debuginfo-2.2.11-lp153.2.3.1

sphinx-debugsource-2.2.11-lp153.2.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-29050.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1157590

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1195227

Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2022:0054-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.3 ble.

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