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REDHAT: 2023:720-3 Critical: Patch Release for Coreutils

suse
Calendar Grey April 5, 2022
Dist Suse Esm H88
The latest update for SUSE Containers brings crucial security enhancements for util-linux, effectively mitigating buffer overflow vulnerabilities.
The container suse/sle15 was updated

Summary

Advisory ID: SUSE-SU-2022:1108-1 Released: Mon Apr 4 17:49:39 2022 Summary: Security update for util-linux Type: security Severity: important

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update buffer overflow advisory important util-linux suse

References

References : 1084671 1151708 1168235 1168389 1169006 1172427 1174942 1175514

1175623 1178236 1178554 1178825 1188921 1194642 CVE-2021-37600

1084671,1151708,1168235,1168389,1169006,1172427,1174942,1175514,1175623,1178236,1178554,1178825,1188921,1194642,CVE-2021-37600

This update for util-linux fixes the following issues:

- Improve throughput and reduce clock sequence increments for high load situation with time based

version 1 uuids. (bsc#1194642)

- Prevent root owning of `/var/lib/libuuid/clock.txt`. (bsc#1194642)

- Warn if uuidd lock state is not usable. (bsc#1194642)

- Fix 'su -s' bash completion. (bsc#1172427)

- CVE-2021-37600: Fixed an integer overflow which could lead to buffer overflow in get_sem_elements. (bsc#1188921)

Severity
important
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Critical

Container Advisory ID : SUSE-CU-2022:513-1
Container Tags : suse/sle15:15.0 , suse/sle15:15.0.4.22.539
Container Release : 4.22.539
Severity : important
Type : security

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update buffer overflow advisory important util-linux suse

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