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SUSE: 2022:1824-1 Critical: Salt Command Injection Risk Addressed

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Calendar Grey June 10, 2021
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SUSE Security Update for Salt: Critical notification regarding command exploitation and installation guidelines provided.
An update that solves one vulnerability, contains three features and has one errata is now available

Summary

This update for salt fixes the following issues: - Check if dpkgnotify is executable (bsc#1186674) - Update to Salt release version 3002.2 (jsc#ECO-3212, jsc#SLE-18033, jsc#SLE-18028) - Drop support for Python2. Obsoletes `python2-salt` package (jsc#SLE-18028) - Fix issue parsing errors in ansiblegate state module - Prevent command injection in the snapper module (bsc#1185281, CVE-2021-31607) - transactional_update: detect recursion in the executor - Add subpackage `salt-transactional-update` (jsc#SLE-18033) - Remove duplicate directories 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:

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References

#1185281 #1186674 ECO-3212 SLE-18028 SLE-18033

Cross- CVE-2021-31607

CVSS scores:

CVE-2021-31607 (NVD) : 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE-2021-31607 (SUSE): 7 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Transactional Server 15-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP3

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-31607.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1185281

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1186674

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2021:1951-1
Rating: important

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