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openSUSE 15.5: SUSE-SU-2023:3862-1 Critical: Salt Flaws

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Calendar Grey September 28, 2023
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The latest patch for salt addresses dual concerns with 12 extra improvements, bolstering protection and reliability for openSUSE users.
This update for salt fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed:

Description

This update for salt fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed:

* CVE-2023-20897: Fixed DOS in minion return. (bsc#1214796, bsc#1213441)

* CVE-2023-20898: Fixed Git Providers can read from the wrong environment

because they get the same cache directory base name. (bsc#1214797,

bsc#1193948)

Bugs fixed:

* Create minion_id with reproducible mtime

* Fix broken tests to make them running in the testsuite

* Fix detection of Salt codename by "salt_version" execution module

* Fix inconsistency in reported version by egg-info metadata (bsc#1215489)

* Fix regression: multiple values for keyword argument 'saltenv' (bsc#1212844)

* Fix the regression of user.present state when group is unset (bsc#1212855)

* Fix utf8 handling in 'pass' renderer and make it more robust

* Fix zypper repositories always being reconfigured

* Make sure configured user is properly set by Salt (bsc#1210994)

* Prevent possible exceptions on salt.utils.user.get_group_dict...

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Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update Denial of Service security issues openSUSE Leap Salt

Patch

## Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE 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 15.5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2023-3862=1 openSUSE-SLE-15.5-2023-3862=1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP5-2023-3862=1

* Server Applications Module 15-SP5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Server-Applications-15-SP5-2023-3862=1

* Transactional Server Module 15-SP5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Transactional-Server-15-SP5-2023-3862=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)

* salt-3006.0-150500.4.19.1

* python3-salt-3006.0-150500.4.19.1

* salt-syndic-3006.0-150500.4.19.1

* salt-proxy-3006.0-150500.4.19.1

* salt-tests-3006.0-150500.4.19.1

* salt-standalone-formulas-configuration-3006.0-150500.4.19.1

* salt-ssh-3006.0-150500.4.19.1

* salt-minion-3006.0-150500.4.19.1

* salt-doc-3006.0-150500.4.19.1

* salt-transactional-update-3006.0-150500.4.19.1

* salt-api-3006.0-150500.4.19.1

* salt-cloud-3006.0-150500.4.19.1

* salt-master-3006.0-150500.4.19.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.5 (noarch)

* salt-zsh-completion-3006.0-150500.4.19.1

* salt-fish-completion-3006.0-150500.4.19.1

* salt-bash-completion-3006.0-150500.4.19.1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* salt-minion-3006.0-150500.4.19.1

* salt-3006.0-150500.4.19.1

* salt-doc-3006.0-150500.4.19.1

* python3-salt-3006.0-150500.4.19.1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP5 (noarch)

* salt-zsh-completion-3006.0-150500.4.19.1

* salt-bash-completion-3006.0-150500.4.19.1

* Server...

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References

* #1193948

* #1210994

* #1212794

* #1212844

* #1212855

* #1213257

* #1213441

* #1213630

* #1213960

* #1214796

* #1214797

* #1215489

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-20897.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-20898.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1193948

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1210994

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1212794

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1212844

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1212855

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1213257

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1213441

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1213630

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1213960

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1214796

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1214797

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1215489

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2023:3862-1
Rating: moderate

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update Denial of Service security issues openSUSE Leap Salt

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