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SUSE: 2018:1696-1 Important: gpg2 Remote Status Spoofing Fix

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Calendar Grey June 15, 2018
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SUSE has released a critical security patch for gpg2, addressing a severe vulnerability that could enable remote attackers to manipulate output. Discover further details about this update.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Summary

This update for gpg2 fixes the following issues: - CVE-2018-12020: GnuPG mishandled the original filename during decryption and verification actions, which allowed remote attackers to spoof the output that GnuPG sends on file descriptor 2 to other programs that use the "--status-fd 2" option (bsc#1096745) Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE 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: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4: zypper in -t patch slessp4-gpg2-13655=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3-LTSS: zypper in -t patch slessp3-gpg2-13655=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11-SP3: zypper in -t patch sleposp3-gpg2-13655=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4:

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References

#1096745

Cross- CVE-2018-12020

Affected Products:

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-2018-12020.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1096745

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:1696-1
Rating: important

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