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SUSE: 2021:0123-2 Critical: Systemd Vulnerability Mitigation

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Calendar Grey January 25, 2017
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE enhances systemd to address security loopholes enabling local privilege escalation, implementing critical patches.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has four fixes An update that solves one vulnerability and has four fixes An update that solves one vulnerability and has four fixes is ...

Summary

This update for systemd fixes the following issues: This security issue was fixed: - CVE-2016-10156: Fix permissions set on permanent timer timestamp files, preventing local unprivileged users from escalating privileges (bsc#1020601). These non-security issues were fixed: - Fix permission set on /var/lib/systemd/linger/* - install: follow config_path symlink (#3362) - install: fix disable when /etc/systemd/system is a symlink (bsc#1014560) - run: make --slice= work in conjunction with --scope (bsc#1014566) - core: don't dispatch load queue when setting Slice= for transient units - systemctl: remove duplicate entries showed by list-dependencies (#5049) (bsc#1012266) - rule: don't automatically online standby memory on s390x (bsc#997682) Patch Instructions:

References

#1012266 #1014560 #1014566 #1020601 #997682

Cross- CVE-2016-10156

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12-SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP2

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-10156.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1012266

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1014560

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1014566

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1020601

https://bugzilla.suse.com/997682

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2017:0279-1
Rating: important

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