SUSE: 2020:1163-1 Important: Local Privilege Escalation Fix
suse
May 4, 2020
An update that solves three vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available
Summary
This update for permissions fixes the following issues: Security issue fixed: - CVE-2020-8013: Fixed a local privilege escalation with mrsh and wodim (bsc#1163922). Non-security issues fixed: - Fixed regression where chkstat breaks without /proc available (bsc#1160764, bsc#1160594) - Fixed capability handling when doing multiple permission changes at once (bsc#1161779) - Fixed handling of relative directory symlinks in chkstat 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 for SAP 15: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-2020-1163=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS:
References
#1160594 #1160764 #1161779 #1163922
Cross- CVE-2019-3688 CVE-2019-3690 CVE-2020-8013
Affected Products:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-LTSS
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-ESPOS
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-3688.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-3690.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-8013.html
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1160594
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1160764
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1161779
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1163922
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2020:1163-1
Rating: important
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