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SUSE: 2021:14750-1 Important: inn Privilege Escalation Patch

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Calendar Grey June 17, 2021
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SUSE Security Update tackles a severe internal privilege escalation vulnerability. Comprehensive patch details can be found here.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Summary

This update for inn fixes the following issues: - CVE-2021-31998: Fixed locale privialge escalation during the update of inn (bsc#1182321). 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 11-SP4-LTSS: zypper in -t patch slessp4-inn-14750=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11-SP3: zypper in -t patch sleposp3-inn-14750=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4: zypper in -t patch dbgsp4-inn-14750=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3: zypper in -t patch dbgsp3-inn-14750=1 Package List: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4-LTSS (i586 ppc64 s390x x86_64): inn-2.4.2-170.21.3.6.1

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References

#1182321

Cross- CVE-2021-31998

CVSS scores:

CVE-2021-31998 (SUSE): 7.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4-LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-31998.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1182321

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2021:14750-1
Rating: important

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