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SUSE 15-SP3: 2021:4890-2 Critical: Ceph Security Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey December 21, 2020
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SUSE has rolled out a vital security update targeting a privilege escalation vulnerability within Ceph, providing significant patches and resolutions.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has four fixes is now available

Summary

This update for ceph fixes the following issues: Security issue fixed: - CVE-2020-27781: Fixed a privilege escalation via the ceph_volume_client Python interface (bsc#1180155, bsc#1179802). Non-security issues fixed: - Update to 15.2.8-80-g1f4b6229ca: + Rebase on tip of upstream "octopus" branch, SHA1 bdf3eebcd22d7d0b3dd4d5501bee5bac354d5b55 * upstream Octopus v15.2.8 release, see https://ceph.io/en/news/blog/2020/v15-2-8-octopus-released/ - Update to 15.2.7-776-g343cd10fe5: + Rebase on tip of upstream "octopus" branch, SHA1 1b8a634fdcd94dfb3ba650793fb1b6d09af65e05 * (bsc#1178860) mgr/dashboard: Disable TLS 1.0 and 1.1 + (bsc#1179016) rpm: require smartmontools on SUSE + (bsc#1180107) ceph-volume: pass --filter-for-batch from drive-group subcommand Patch Instructions:

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Topics Covered

security advisory update privilege escalation patch important SUSE Ceph

References

#1178860 #1179016 #1179802 #1180107 #1180155

Cross- CVE-2020-27781

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP2

SUSE Enterprise Storage 7

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-27781.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1178860

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1179016

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1179802

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1180107

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1180155

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2020:3895-1
Rating: important

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Topics Covered

security advisory update privilege escalation patch important SUSE Ceph

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