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SUSE: 2022:2178-1 Important: Salt Authentication Bypass Threat

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Calendar Grey June 24, 2022
Dist Suse Esm H88
A vital patch has been released for SUSE salt to tackle a serious vulnerability in authentication bypass. Ensure updates are applied without delay.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Summary

This update for salt fixes the following issues: - CVE-2022-22967: Fixed missing check for PAM_ACCT_MGM return value that could be used to bypass PAM authentication (bsc#1200566) 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: - openSUSE Leap 15.3: zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.3-2022-2178=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Transactional Server 15-SP3: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Transactional-Server-15-SP3-2022-2178=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15-SP3: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Server-Applications-15-SP3-2022-2178=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP3:

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References

#1200566

Cross- CVE-2022-22967

CVSS scores:

CVE-2022-22967 (SUSE): 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Transactional Server 15-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15-SP3

SUSE Manager Proxy 4.2

SUSE Manager Server 4.2

openSUSE Leap 15.3

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-22967.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1200566

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2022:2178-1
Rating: important

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