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A flaw was discovered in ruby-kramdown, a fast, pure ruby, Markdown parser and converter, which could result in unintended read access to files or unintended embedded Ruby code execution when the {::options /} extension is used together with the 'template' option. . - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-4743-1
ruby-kramdown processes the template option inside Kramdown documents by default, which allows unintended read access (such as template="/etc/passwd") or unintended embedded Ruby code execution (such as a string that begins with template="string://
An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has 8 fixes An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has 8 fixes An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has 8 fixes is now available. is now available.. openSUSE Security Update: Security update for systemd ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2016:1101-1 Rating: important References: #959886 #960158 #963230 #964355 #965897 #967122 #970423 #970860 #972612 #972727 Cross-References: CVE-2014-9770 CVE-2015-8842 Affected Products: openSUSE 13.2 ______________________________________________________________________________ An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has 8 fixes is now available. Description: This update for systemd fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed: - CVE-2014-9770, CVE-2015-8842: Don't allow read access to journal files to users (boo#972612) These non-security issues were fixed: - Import commit 523777609a04fe9e590420e89f94ef07e3719baa: e5e362a udev: exclude MD from block device ownership event locking 8839413 udev: really exclude device-mapper from block device ownership event locking 66782e6 udev: exclude device-mapper from block device ownership event locking (boo#972727) 1386f57 tmpfiles: explicitly set mode for /run/log faadb74 tmpfiles: don't allow read access to journal files to users not in systemd-journal 9b1ef37 tmpfiles: don't apply sgid and executable bit to journal files, only the directories they are contained in 011c39f tmpfiles: add ability to mask access mode by pre-existing access mode on files/directories 07e2d60 tmpfiles: get rid of "m" lines d504e28 tmpfiles: various modernizations f97250d systemctl: no need to pass --all if inactive is explicitly requested in list-units (boo#967122) 2686573 fstab-generator: fix automount option and don't start associated mountunit at boot (boo#970423) 5c1637d login: support more than just power-gpio-key (fate#318444) (boo#970860) 2c95ecd logind: add standard gpio power button support (fate#318444) (boo#970860) af3eb93 Revert "log-target-null-instead-kmsg" 555dad4 shorten hostname before checking for trailing dot (boo#965897) 522194c Revert "log: honour the kernel's quiet cmdline argument" (boo#963230) cc94e47 transaction: downgrade warnings about wanted unit which are not found (boo#960158) eb3cfb3 Revert "vhangup-on-all-consoles" 0c28752 remove WorkingDirectory parameter from emergency, rescue and console-shell.service (boo#959886) 1d6d840 Fix wrong substitution variable name in systemd-udev-root-symlink.service.in (boo#964355) - Don't ship boot.udev and systemd-journald.init anymore. It was used during the systemd transition when both sysvinit and systemd could be used on the same system Patch Instructions: To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - openSUSE 13.2: zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2016-487=1 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List: - openSUSE 13.2 (i586 x86_64): libgudev-1_0-0-210.1459453449.5237776-25.37.1 libgudev-1_0-0-debuginfo-210.1459453449.5237776-25.37.1 libgudev-1_0-devel-210.1459453449.5237776-25.37.1 libudev-devel-210.1459453449.5237776-25.37.1 libudev-mini-devel-210.1459453449.5237776-25.37.1 libudev-mini1-210.1459453449.5237776-25.37.1 libudev-mini1-debuginfo-210.1459453449.5237776-25.37.1 libudev1-210.1459453449.5237776-25.37.1 libudev1-debuginfo-210.1459453449.5237776-25.37.1 nss-myhostname-210.1459453449.5237776-25.37.1 nss-myhostname-debuginfo-210.1459453449.5237776-25.37.1 systemd-210.1459453449.5237776-25.37.1 systemd-debuginfo-210.1459453449.5237776-25.37.1 systemd-debugsource-210.1459453449.5237776-25.37.1 systemd-devel-210.1459453449.5237776-25.37.1 systemd-journal-gateway-210.1459453449.5237776-25.37.1 systemd-journal-gateway-debuginfo-210.1459453449.5237776-25.37.1 systemd-logger-210.1459453449.5237776-25.37.1 systemd-mini-210.1459453449.5237776-25.37.1 systemd-mini-debuginfo-210.1459453449.5237776-25.37.1 systemd-mini-debugsource-210.1459453449.5237776-25.37.1 systemd-mini-devel-210.1459453449.5237776-25.37.1 systemd-mini-sysvinit-210.1459453449.5237776-25.37.1 systemd-sysvinit-210.1459453449.5237776-25.37.1 typelib-1_0-GUdev-1_0-210.1459453449.5237776-25.37.1 udev-210.1459453449.5237776-25.37.1 udev-debuginfo-210.1459453449.5237776-25.37.1 udev-mini-210.1459453449.5237776-25.37.1 udev-mini-debuginfo-210.1459453449.5237776-25.37.1 - openSUSE 13.2 (noarch): systemd-bash-completion-210.1459453449.5237776-25.37.1 - openSUSE 13.2 (x86_64): libgudev-1_0-0-32bit-210.1459453449.5237776-25.37.1 libgudev-1_0-0-debuginfo-32bit-210.1459453449.5237776-25.37.1 libudev1-32bit-210.1459453449.5237776-25.37.1 libudev1-debuginfo-32bit-210.1459453449.5237776-25.37.1 nss-myhostname-32bit-210.1459453449.5237776-25.37.1 nss-myhostname-debuginfo-32bit-210.1459453449.5237776-25.37.1 systemd-32bit-210.1459453449.5237776-25.37.1 systemd-debuginfo-32bit-210.1459453449.5237776-25.37.1 References: https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-9770.html https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8842.html https://bugzilla.suse.com/959886 https://bugzilla.suse.com/960158 https://bugzilla.suse.com/963230 https://bugzilla.suse.com/964355 https://bugzilla.suse.com/965897 https://bugzilla.suse.com/967122 https://bugzilla.suse.com/970423 https://bugzilla.suse.com/970860 https://bugzilla.suse.com/972612 https://bugzilla.suse.com/972727 . The latest systemd update for openSUSE 13.2 addresses critical vulnerabilities and important bug fixes to enhance stability andperformance, urging users to update promptly. systemd Security Update, openSUSE 13.2 Patch, read access CVE Fixes. . Severity: Important. LinuxSecurity.com Team
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