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SUSE: 2017:1216-1 Critical Security Advisory for Samba Symlink Issue

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Calendar Grey May 8, 2017
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SUSE has issued a security patch for samba addressing a severe symlink race vulnerability. Essential notification for impacted distributions provided.
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Summary

This update for samba fixes the following issues: Security issue fixed: - CVE-2017-2619: symlink race permits opening files outside share directory (bsc#1027147). For SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 this is a re-issue of the update, a regression in the fix has been addressed (bsc#1036283, bso#12721). Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - SUSE OpenStack Cloud 5: zypper in -t patch sleclo50sp3-samba-13096=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP4: zypper in -t patch sdksp4-samba-13096=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4: zypper in -t patch slessp4-samba-13096=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3-LTSS: zypper in -t patch slessp3-samba-13096=1

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Topics Covered

security advisory update samba critical threat race condition SUSE

References

#1027147 #1036283

Cross- CVE-2017-2619

Affected Products:

SUSE OpenStack Cloud 5

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3-LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-2619.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1027147

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1036283

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2017:1216-1
Rating: important

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Topics Covered

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