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SUSE: 2021:2104-1 Critical: Salt Access Issues and Fixes

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Calendar Grey June 21, 2021
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This urgent SUSE Security Patch tackles a pair of important vulnerabilities in Salt, delivering essential upgrades and resolutions.
An update that solves two vulnerabilities, contains three features and has 8 fixes is now available

Summary

This update fixes the following issues: salt: Update to Salt release version 3002.2 (jsc#ECO-3212, jsc#SLE-18033, jsc#SLE-18028) - Check if dpkgnotify is executable (bsc#1186674) - Drop support for Python2. Obsoletes `python2-salt` package (jsc#SLE-18028) - Virt module updates * network: handle missing ipv4 netmask attribute * more network support * PCI/USB host devices passthrough support - Set distro requirement to oldest supported version in requirements/base.txt - Bring missing part of async batch implementation back (bsc#1182382, CVE-2021-25315) - Always require python3-distro (bsc#1182293) - Remove deprecated warning that breaks minion execution when "server_id_use_crc" opts is missing - Fix pkg states when DEB package has "all" arch - Do not force beacons configuration to be a list.

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References

#1171257 #1176293 #1179831 #1181368 #1182281

#1182293 #1182382 #1185092 #1185281 #1186674

ECO-3212 SLE-18028 SLE-18033

Cross- CVE-2021-25315 CVE-2021-31607

CVSS scores:

CVE-2021-25315 (NVD) : 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE-2021-25315 (SUSE): 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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 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-2021-25315.html

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2021:2104-1
Rating: critical

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security advisory critical patch management command injection suse linux access issues salt

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