Security update for shadow
Announcement ID: | SUSE-SU-2017:2947-1 |
Rating: | moderate |
References: | #1023895 #1052261 #980486 |
Affected Products: |
An update that solves one vulnerability and has two fixes is now available.
Description:
This update for shadow fixes several issues.
This security issue was fixed:
- CVE-2017-12424: The newusers tool could have been forced to manipulate
internal data structures in ways unintended by the authors. Malformed
input may have lead to crashes (with a buffer overflow or other memory
corruption) or
other unspecified behaviors (bsc#1052261).
These non-security issues were fixed:
- bsc#1023895: Fixed man page to not contain invalid options and also
prevent warnings when using these options in certain settings
- bsc#980486: Reset user in /var/log/tallylog because of the usage of
pam_tally2
Patch Instructions:
To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12-SP2:
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-RPI-12-SP2-2017-1829=1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3:
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2017-1829=1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2:
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2017-1829=1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3:
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP3-2017-1829=1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP2:
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP2-2017-1829=1
- SUSE Container as a Service Platform ALL:
zypper in -t patch SUSE-CAASP-ALL-2017-1829=1
- OpenStack Cloud Magnum Orchestration 7:
zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-Magnum-Orchestration-7-2017-1829=1
To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".
Package List:
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12-SP2 (aarch64):
- shadow-4.2.1-27.3.3
- shadow-debuginfo-4.2.1-27.3.3
- shadow-debugsource-4.2.1-27.3.3
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):
- shadow-4.2.1-27.3.3
- shadow-debuginfo-4.2.1-27.3.3
- shadow-debugsource-4.2.1-27.3.3
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):
- shadow-4.2.1-27.3.3
- shadow-debuginfo-4.2.1-27.3.3
- shadow-debugsource-4.2.1-27.3.3
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 (x86_64):
- shadow-4.2.1-27.3.3
- shadow-debuginfo-4.2.1-27.3.3
- shadow-debugsource-4.2.1-27.3.3
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP2 (x86_64):
- shadow-4.2.1-27.3.3
- shadow-debuginfo-4.2.1-27.3.3
- shadow-debugsource-4.2.1-27.3.3
- SUSE Container as a Service Platform ALL (x86_64):
- shadow-4.2.1-27.3.3
- shadow-debuginfo-4.2.1-27.3.3
- shadow-debugsource-4.2.1-27.3.3
- OpenStack Cloud Magnum Orchestration 7 (x86_64):
- shadow-4.2.1-27.3.3
- shadow-debuginfo-4.2.1-27.3.3
- shadow-debugsource-4.2.1-27.3.3