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SUSE: 2021:4420-1 Critical Patch for Salt Vulnerability Released Today

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Calendar Grey November 6, 2020
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE introduced an urgent security patch for salt that tackles various vulnerabilities while delivering essential enhancements and corrections.
An update that solves three vulnerabilities and has 7 fixes is now available

Summary

This update for salt fixes the following issues: - Avoid regression on "salt-master": set passphrase for salt-ssh keys to empty string (bsc#1178485) - Properly validate eauth credentials and tokens on SSH calls made by Salt API (bsc#1178319, bsc#1178362, bsc#1178361, CVE-2020-25592, CVE-2020-17490, CVE-2020-16846) - Fix disk.blkid to avoid unexpected keyword argument '__pub_user'. (bsc#1177867) - Ensure virt.update stop_on_reboot is updated with its default value. - Do not break package building for systemd OSes. - Drop wrong mock from chroot unit test. - Support systemd versions with dot. (bsc#1176294) - Fix for grains.test_core unit test. - Fix file/directory user and group ownership containing UTF-8 characters. (bsc#1176024) - Several changes to virtualization:

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue critical patch SUSE server application salt

References

#1159670 #1175987 #1176024 #1176294 #1176397

#1177867 #1178319 #1178361 #1178362 #1178485

Cross- CVE-2020-16846 CVE-2020-17490 CVE-2020-25592

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15-SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Python2 15-SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP1

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-16846.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-17490.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-25592.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1159670

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1175987

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1176024

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1176294

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1176397

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1177867

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1178319

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2020:3243-1
Rating: critical

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