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openSUSE 15-SP3: 2022:0061-1 Moderate: sftp Fingerprint Verification Issue

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available. . openSUSE Security Update: Security update for mc ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2022:0061-1 Rating: moderate References: #1190180 Cross-References: CVE-2021-36370 CVSS scores: CVE-2021-36370 (SUSE): 4.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N Affected Products: openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP3 ______________________________________________________________________________ An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available. Description: This update for mc fixes the following issues: Midnight Commander 4.8.27: * Core - Reimplement version detection (#3603, #4249) - Significantly reduce rebuilt time after version change (#2252, #4266) - Drop automatic migration of configuration from ~/.mc to XDG-based directories (#3682) - zsh: support custom configuration file: ~/.local/share/mc/.zshrc (#4203) - Widgets: implement WST_VISIBLE state to show/hide widgets (#2919) - Find File: add Follow symlinks option (#2020) * VFS - extfs: support unrar-6 (#4154) - extfs: support official 7z binary (7zz) (#4239) - ftpfs: apply file list parser from lftp project (#2841, #3174) * Editor - Word completion: get candidates from all open files (#4160) - etags: get rid of hardcoded list length and window width (#4132) - Update syntax files: - python (#4140) - Add syntax highlighting: - Verilog and SystemVerilog? header files (#4215) - JSON (#4250) - openrc-run scripts (#4246) * Misc - Filehighlight of c++ and h++ files as sources (#4194) - Filehighlight of JSON files as documents (#4250) - Support of alacritty terminal emulator (??? (#4248) - Support of foot terminal emulator (??? (#4251) - Support of (alt+)shift+arrow keys in st terminal emulator (st.suckless.org) (#4267) - Mouse support in screen: don't check variable (#4233) - mc.ext: support fb2 e-books (#4167) - ext.d: use mediainfo to view info about various media files (#4167) - Remove OS/distro-specific package-related stuff from source tree (#4217) * Fixes - FTBFS against NCurses on OS X 10.9.5 (#4181) - Segfault on dialog before panels get visible (#4244) - Crash if shadow is out of screen (build against NCurses) (#4192) - Crash in search (#4222) - Crash on startup with enabled subshell in FreeBSD (workaround) (#4213) - Hang on start randomly with zsh as subshell (#4198) - If command line is invisible it's partially displayed (#4182) - Broken handling of zip archives (#4180, #4183) - Broken handling of jar files as zip archives (#4223) - Timestamps of symlinks, sockets, fifos, etc are not preserved after copy/move (#3985) - %view action in the user menu doesn't work on no-exec filesystem (#4242) - Hardlinks are not colored by file type or extension (#3375) - mcedit: silent macro makes terminal disrupted (#4171) - mcedit: disrupting of TAGS file path (#4207) - vfs: unable to browse compressed tar archives (#4191) - sftpfs vfs: CVE-2021-36370: server fingerprint isn't verified (discovered by AUT-milCERT during an audit of open source software) (#4259) - ftpfs vfs: month of file is always January (#4260) - Tests: log files are written by libcheck and automake simultaneously (#3986) Patch Instructions: To install this openSUSE 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 Backports SLE-15-SP3: zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2022-61=1 Package List: - openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP3 (aarch64 i586 ppc64le s390x x86_64): mc-4.8.27-bp153.2.3.1 - openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP3(noarch): mc-lang-4.8.27-bp153.2.3.1 References: https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-36370.html https://bugzilla.suse.com/1190180 . A crucial patch has been released for mc that addresses significant vulnerabilities, notably enhancing server identity verification in openSUSE.. openSUSE Security, mc Update, Moderate Threat, Server Fingerprint, sftp Safety. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

Mar 01, 2022 OpenSUSE