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SUSE: 2023:4390-1 Important: Salt Arbitrary Code Execution Warning

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Calendar Grey November 9, 2023
Dist Suse Esm H88
Urgent security notice for Salt on SUSE systems. Address potential arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities by applying the most recent patches.
* bsc#1213293 * bsc#1213518 * bsc#1214477 * bsc#1215157 * jsc#MSQA-706

Summary

## This update for salt fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: * CVE-2023-34049: arbitrary code execution via symlink attack (bsc#1215157) Bugs fixed: * Fix optimization_order opt to prevent testsuite fails * Improve salt.utils.json.find_json to avoid fails (bsc#1213293) * Use salt-call from salt bundle with transactional_update * Only call native_str on curl_debug message in tornado when needed * Implement the calling for batch async from the salt CLI * Fix calculation of SLS context vars when trailing dots on targetted sls/state (bsc#1213518) * Rename salt-tests to python3-salt-testsuite * CVE-2023-34049: arbitrary code execution via symlink attack (bsc#1215157) * Allow all primitive grain types for autosign_grains (bsc#1214477)

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References

* bsc#1213293

* bsc#1213518

* bsc#1214477

* bsc#1215157

* jsc#MSQA-706

Cross-

* CVE-2023-34049

CVSS scores:

Affected Products:

* SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1 LTSS 15-SP1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 LTSS 15-SP1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP1

An update that solves one vulnerability, contains one feature and has three

security fixes can now be installed.

##

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-34049.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1213293

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1213518

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1214477

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2023:4390-1
Rating: important

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