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SUSE Linux 12-SP1: 2020:1234-5 Critical: OpenSSL Vulnerability Patch

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Calendar Grey November 2, 2016
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SUSE Security Patch issued to resolve significant vulnerabilities in wget, introducing 9 solutions enhancing overall system reliability.
An update that fixes 11 vulnerabilities is now available

Summary

This update for curl fixes the following security issues: - CVE-2016-8624: invalid URL parsing with '#' (bsc#1005646) - CVE-2016-8623: Use-after-free via shared cookies (bsc#1005645) - CVE-2016-8622: URL unescape heap overflow via integer truncation (bsc#1005643) - CVE-2016-8621: curl_getdate read out of bounds (bsc#1005642) - CVE-2016-8620: glob parser write/read out of bounds (bsc#1005640) - CVE-2016-8619: double-free in krb5 code (bsc#1005638) - CVE-2016-8618: double-free in curl_maprintf (bsc#1005637) - CVE-2016-8617: OOB write via unchecked multiplication (bsc#1005635) - CVE-2016-8616: case insensitive password comparison (bsc#1005634) - CVE-2016-8615: cookie injection for other servers (bsc#1005633) - CVE-2016-7167: escape and unescape integer overflows (bsc#998760)

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Topics Covered

security advisory security fix system integrity SUSE Linux curl important update patch instructions

References

#1005633 #1005634 #1005635 #1005637 #1005638

#1005640 #1005642 #1005643 #1005645 #1005646

#998760

Cross- CVE-2016-7167 CVE-2016-8615 CVE-2016-8616

CVE-2016-8617 CVE-2016-8618 CVE-2016-8619

CVE-2016-8620 CVE-2016-8621 CVE-2016-8622

CVE-2016-8623 CVE-2016-8624

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP1

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7167.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-8615.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-8616.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-8617.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-8618.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-8619.html

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2016:2699-1
Rating: important

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Topics Covered

security advisory security fix system integrity SUSE Linux curl important update patch instructions

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