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openSUSE Leap 15.3: 2022:0727-1 Moderate Update for Libeconf and Util-Linux

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Calendar Grey March 4, 2022
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The latest openSUSE update resolves vulnerabilities in libeconf, shadow, and util-linux, improving both security and performance of the system.
An update that solves two vulnerabilities, contains two features and has two fixes is now available

Description

This security update for libeconf, shadow and util-linux fix the following

issues:

libeconf:

- Add libeconf to SLE-Module-Basesystem_15-SP3 because needed by

'util-linux' and 'shadow' to fix autoyast handling of security related

parameters (bsc#1192954, jsc#SLE-23384, jsc#SLE-23402)

Issues fixed in libeconf:

- Reading numbers with different bases (e.g. oktal) (bsc#1193632) (#157)

- Fixed different issues while writing string values to file.

- Writing comments to file too.

- Fixed crash while merging values.

- Added econftool cat option (#146)

- new API call: econf_readDirsHistory (showing ALL locations)

- new API call: econf_getPath (absolute path of the configuration file)

- Man pages libeconf.3 and econftool.8.

- Handling multiline strings.

- Added libeconf_ext which returns more information like line_nr,

comments, path of the configuration file,...

- Econftool, an command line interface for handling configuration...

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Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate util-linux system update shadow openSUSE libeconf

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-15.3-2022-727=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

libblkid-devel-2.36.2-150300.4.14.3

libblkid-devel-static-2.36.2-150300.4.14.3

libblkid1-2.36.2-150300.4.14.3

libblkid1-debuginfo-2.36.2-150300.4.14.3

libeconf-debugsource-0.4.4+git20220104.962774f-150300.3.6.2

libeconf-devel-0.4.4+git20220104.962774f-150300.3.6.2

libeconf0-0.4.4+git20220104.962774f-150300.3.6.2

libeconf0-debuginfo-0.4.4+git20220104.962774f-150300.3.6.2

libfdisk-devel-2.36.2-150300.4.14.3

libfdisk-devel-static-2.36.2-150300.4.14.3

libfdisk1-2.36.2-150300.4.14.3

libfdisk1-debuginfo-2.36.2-150300.4.14.3

libmount-devel-2.36.2-150300.4.14.3

libmount-devel-static-2.36.2-150300.4.14.3

libmount1-2.36.2-150300.4.14.3

libmount1-debuginfo-2.36.2-150300.4.14.3

libsmartcols-devel-2.36.2-150300.4.14.3

libsmartcols-devel-static-2.36.2-150300.4.14.3

libsmartcols1-2.36.2-150300.4.14.3

libsmartcols1-debuginfo-2.36.2-150300.4.14.3

libuuid-devel-2.36.2-150300.4.14.3

libuuid-devel-static-2.36.2-150300.4.14.3

libuuid1-2.36.2-150300.4.14.3

libuuid1-debuginfo-2.3...

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References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3995.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3996.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1188507

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1192954

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1193632

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1194976

Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2022:0727-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.3 ble.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate util-linux system update shadow openSUSE libeconf

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