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SUSE 15-SP4: 2022:3942-2 High: gnome-shell CVE-2022-1234 Security Update

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Calendar Grey November 10, 2022
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Fedora has issued a significant patch for wayland, tackling vital vulnerabilities linked to buffer overruns and potential data exposure.
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available

Summary

This update for xwayland fixes the following issues: - CVE-2022-3550: Fixed out of bounds read/write in _GetCountedString() (bsc#1204412). - CVE-2022-3551: Fixed various leaks of the return value of GetComponentSpec() (bsc#1204416). 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-15.4-2022-3941=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 15-SP4: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-WE-15-SP4-2022-3941=1 Package List: - openSUSE Leap 15.4 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64): xwayland-21.1.4-150400.3.3.1 xwayland-debuginfo-21.1.4-150400.3.3.1

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security advisory critical issue memory leak SUSE xwayland

References

#1204412 #1204416

Cross- CVE-2022-3550 CVE-2022-3551

CVSS scores:

CVE-2022-3550 (NVD) : 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE-2022-3550 (SUSE): 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE-2022-3551 (NVD) : 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVE-2022-3551 (SUSE): 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 15-SP4

openSUSE Leap 15.4

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-3550.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-3551.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1204412

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1204416

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2022:3941-1
Rating: important

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical issue memory leak SUSE xwayland

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