SUSE: 2019:1122-1 Important: Hostinfo And Supportutils Security Update
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April 30, 2019
An update that solves 5 vulnerabilities and has 5 fixes is now available
Summary
This update for hostinfo, supportutils fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed for supportutils: - CVE-2018-19640: Fixed an issue where users could kill arbitrary processes (bsc#1118463). - CVE-2018-19638: Fixed an issue where users could overwrite arbitrary log files (bsc#1118460). - CVE-2018-19639: Fixed a code execution if run with -v (bsc#1118462). - CVE-2018-19637: Fixed an issue where static temporary filename could allow overwriting of files (bsc#1117776). - CVE-2018-19636: Fixed a local root exploit via inclusion of attacker controlled shell script (bsc#1117751). Other issues fixed for supportutils: - Fixed invalid exit code commands (bsc#1125666) - SUSE separation in supportconfig (bsc#1125623) - Clarified supportconfig(8) -x option (bsc#1115245) - supportconfig: 3.0.127
Topics Covered
References
#1054979 #1099498 #1115245 #1117751 #1117776
#1118460 #1118462 #1118463 #1125623 #1125666
Cross- CVE-2018-19636 CVE-2018-19637 CVE-2018-19638
CVE-2018-19639 CVE-2018-19640
Affected Products:
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP2
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-LTSS
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-BCL
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1-LTSS
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3
SUSE Enterprise Storage 4
SUSE CaaS Platform ALL
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-19636.html
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2019:1122-1
Rating: important
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