Lucene search

K
suseSuseOPENSUSE-SU-2019:1450-1
HistoryMay 28, 2019 - 12:00 a.m.

Security update for systemd (important)

2019-05-2800:00:00
lists.opensuse.org
219

0.002 Low

EPSS

Percentile

59.9%

An update that solves three vulnerabilities and has 8 fixes
is now available.

Description:

This update for systemd fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed:

  • CVE-2018-6954: Fixed a vulnerability in the symlink handling of
    systemd-tmpfiles which allowed a local user to obtain ownership of
    arbitrary files (bsc#1080919).
  • CVE-2019-3842: Fixed a vulnerability in pam_systemd which allowed a
    local user to escalate privileges (bsc#1132348).
  • CVE-2019-6454: Fixed a denial of service caused by long dbus messages
    (bsc#1125352).

Non-security issues fixed:

  • systemd-coredump: generate a stack trace of all core dumps (jsc#SLE-5933)
  • udevd: notify when max number value of children is reached only once per
    batch of events (bsc#1132400)
  • sd-bus: bump message queue size again (bsc#1132721)
  • core: only watch processes when it’s really necessary (bsc#955942
    bsc#1128657)
  • rules: load drivers only on “add” events (bsc#1126056)
  • sysctl: Don’t pass null directive argument to ‘%s’ (bsc#1121563)
  • Do not automatically online memory on s390x (bsc#1127557)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP2:Update update project.

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 Leap 42.3:

    zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2019-1450=1

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
openSUSE Leap42.3i586< - openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):.i586.rpm
openSUSE Leap42.3x86_64< - openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):.x86_64.rpm
openSUSE Leap42.3noarch< - openSUSE Leap 42.3 (noarch):- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (noarch):.noarch.rpm
openSUSE Leap42.3x86_64< - openSUSE Leap 42.3 (x86_64):- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (x86_64):.x86_64.rpm