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SUSE 15-SP4: SUSE-SU-2022:3232-1 Important Keepalived Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey September 9, 2022
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE Security Patch addresses CVE-2021-44225 within keepalived for essential infrastructures. Find specifics below.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has one errata is now available

Summary

This update for keepalived fixes the following issues: - CVE-2021-44225: Fix a potential privilege escalation due to insufficient control in the D-Bus policy (bsc#1193115). Bugfixes: - Set ProtectKernelModules to false in service file (bsc#1202808). 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 15.4: zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.4-2022-3232=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability 15-SP4: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HA-15-SP4-2022-3232=1 Package List: - openSUSE Leap 15.4 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64): keepalived-2.2.2-150400.3.5.1 keepalived-debuginfo-2.2.2-150400.3.5.1

References

#1193115 #1202808

Cross- CVE-2021-44225

CVSS scores:

CVE-2021-44225 (NVD) : 5.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

CVE-2021-44225 (SUSE): 8.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability 15-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15-SP4

SUSE Manager Proxy 4.3

SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.3

SUSE Manager Server 4.3

openSUSE Leap 15.4

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-44225.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1193115

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1202808

Severity
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2022:3232-1
Rating: important

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