Security update for salt (moderate)

An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has 7 fixes
is now available.

Description:

This update for salt fixes the following issues:

• Avoid possible user escalation upgrading salt-master (bsc#1157465)
  (CVE-2019-18897)
• Fix unit tests failures in test_batch_async tests
• Batch Async: Handle exceptions, properly unregister and close instances
  after running async batching to avoid CPU starvation of the MWorkers
  (bsc#1162327)
• RHEL/CentOS 8 uses platform-python instead of python3
• New configuration option for selection of grains in the minion start
  event.
• Fix ‘os_family’ grain for Astra Linux Common Edition
• Fix for salt-api NET API where unauthenticated attacker could run
  arbitrary code (CVE-2019-17361) (bsc#1162504)
• Adds disabled parameter to mod_repo in aptpkg module Move token with
  atomic operation Bad API token files get deleted (bsc#1160931)
• Support for Btrfs and XFS in parted and mkfs added
• Adds list_downloaded for apt Module to enable pre-downloading support
  Adds virt.(pool|network)_get_xml functions
• Various libvirt updates:
  • Add virt.pool_capabilities function
  • virt.pool_running improvements
  • Add virt.pool_deleted state
  • virt.network_define allow adding IP configuration
• virt: adding kernel boot parameters to libvirt xml
• Fix to scheduler when data[‘run’] does not exist (bsc#1159118)
• Fix virt states to not fail on VMs already stopped
• Fix applying of attributes for returner rawfile_json (bsc#1158940)
• xfs: do not fail if type is not present (bsc#1153611)
• Fix errors when running virt.get_hypervisor function
• Align virt.full_info fixes with upstream Salt
• Fix for log checking in x509 test
• Read repo info without using interpolation (bsc#1135656)
• Limiting M2Crypto to >= SLE15
• Replacing pycrypto with M2Crypto (bsc#1165425)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15-SP1: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 15.1:

  zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2020-357=1