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SUSE: 2018:3815-1 Critical: Remote Access Issue in Salt Fixed

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Calendar Grey November 20, 2018
Dist Suse Esm H88
Critical SUSE Security Patch addresses two vulnerabilities in salt, referenced as announcement ID SUSE-SU-2018:3815-1.
An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has three fixes is now available

Summary

This update for salt fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2018-15750: Fixed directory traversal vulnerability in salt-api (bsc#1113698). - CVE-2018-15751: Fixed remote authentication bypass in salt-api(netapi) that allows to execute arbitrary commands (bsc#1113699). Non-security issues fixed: - Improved handling of LDAP group id. gid is no longer treated as a string, which could have lead to faulty group creations (bsc#1113784). - Fixed async call to process manager (bsc#1110938). - Fixed OS arch detection when RPM is not installed (bsc#1114197). 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:

References

#1110938 #1113698 #1113699 #1113784 #1114197

Cross- CVE-2018-15750 CVE-2018-15751

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-15750.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-15751.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1110938

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1113698

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1113699

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1113784

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1114197

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:3815-1
Rating: important

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