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SUSE: 2019:1265-1 Important: Systemd Privilege Escalation and DoS Issues

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Calendar Grey May 16, 2019
Dist Suse Esm H88
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An update that solves three vulnerabilities and has 8 fixes is now available

Summary

This update for systemd fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2018-6954: Fixed a vulnerability in the symlink handling of systemd-tmpfiles which allowed a local user to obtain ownership of arbitrary files (bsc#1080919). - CVE-2019-3842: Fixed a vulnerability in pam_systemd which allowed a local user to escalate privileges (bsc#1132348). - CVE-2019-6454: Fixed a denial of service caused by long dbus messages (bsc#1125352). Non-security issues fixed: - systemd-coredump: generate a stack trace of all core dumps (jsc#SLE-5933) - udevd: notify when max number value of children is reached only once per batch of events (bsc#1132400) - sd-bus: bump message queue size again (bsc#1132721) - core: only watch processes when it's really necessary (bsc#955942 bsc#1128657)

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service privilege escalation important SUSE systemd

References

#1080919 #1121563 #1125352 #1126056 #1127557

#1128657 #1130230 #1132348 #1132400 #1132721

#955942

Cross- CVE-2018-6954 CVE-2019-3842 CVE-2019-6454

Affected Products:

SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP3

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 Desktop 12-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3

SUSE Enterprise Storage 4

SUSE CaaS Platform ALL

SUSE CaaS Platform 3.0

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2019:1265-1
Rating: important

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