Security update for Salt

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2017:1582-1
Rating: moderate
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CVSS scores:
  • CVE-2017-5200 ( NVD ): 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • CVE-2017-8109 ( NVD ): 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected Products:
  • Advanced Systems Management Module 12
  • Magnum Orchestration 7
  • SUSE Enterprise Storage 3
  • SUSE Enterprise Storage 4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service Image Server 12 12-SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for the Raspberry Pi 12-SP2
  • SUSE Manager Client Tools for SLE 12
  • SUSE Manager Proxy 3.0
  • SUSE Manager Server 3.0

An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has 17 security fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for salt provides version 2016.11.4 and brings various fixes and improvements:

  • Adding a salt-minion watchdog for RHEL6 and SLES11 systems (sysV) to restart salt-minion in case of crashes during upgrade.
  • Fix format error. (bsc#1043111)
  • Fix ownership for whole master cache directory. (bsc#1035914)
  • Disable 3rd party runtime packages to be explicitly recommended. (bsc#1040886)
  • Fix insecure permissions in salt-ssh temporary files. (bsc#1035912, CVE-2017-8109)
  • Disable custom rosters for Salt SSH via Salt API. (bsc#1011800, CVE-2017-5200)
  • Orchestrate and batches don't return false failed information anymore.
  • Speed-up cherrypy by removing sleep call.
  • Fix os_family grains on SUSE. (bsc#1038855)
  • Fix setting the language on SUSE systems. (bsc#1038855)
  • Use SUSE specific salt-api.service. (bsc#1039370)
  • Fix using hostname for minion ID as '127'.
  • Fix core grains constants for timezone. (bsc#1032931)
  • Minor fixes on new pkg.list_downloaded.
  • Listing all type of advisory patches for Yum module.
  • Prevents zero length error on Python 2.6.
  • Fixes zypper test error after backporting.
  • Raet protocol is no longer supported. (bsc#1020831)
  • Fix moving SSH data to the new home. (bsc#1027722)
  • Fix logrotating /var/log/salt/minion. (bsc#1030009)
  • Fix result of master_tops extension is mutually overwritten. (bsc#1030073)
  • Allows to set 'timeout' and 'gather_job_timeout' via kwargs.
  • Allows to set custom timeouts for 'manage.up' and 'manage.status'.
  • Use salt's ordereddict for comparison.
  • Fix scripts for salt-proxy.
  • Add openscap module.
  • File.get_managed regression fix.
  • Fix translate variable arguments if they contain hidden keywords. (bsc#1025896)
  • Added unit test for dockerng.sls_build dryrun.
  • Added dryrun to dockerng.sls_build.
  • Update dockerng minimal version requirements.
  • Fix format error in error parsing.
  • Keep fix for migrating salt home directory. (bsc#1022562)
  • Fix salt pkg.latest raises exception if package is not available. (bsc#1012999)
  • Timezone should always be in UTC. (bsc#1017078)
  • Fix timezone handling for rpm installtime. (bsc#1017078)
  • Increasing timeouts for running integrations tests.
  • Add buildargs option to dockerng.build module.
  • Fix error when missing ssh-option parameter.
  • Re-add yum notify plugin.
  • All kwargs to dockerng.create to provide all features to sls_build as well.
  • Datetime should be returned always in UTC.
  • Fix possible crash while deserialising data on infinite recursion in scheduled state. (bsc#1036125)
  • Documentation refresh to 2016.11.4
  • For a detailed description, please refer to:
  • https://docs.saltstack.com/en/develop/topics/releases/2016.11.4.html
  • https://docs.saltstack.com/en/develop/topics/releases/2016.11.3.html
  • https://docs.saltstack.com/en/develop/topics/releases/2016.11.2.html
  • https://docs.saltstack.com/en/develop/topics/releases/2016.11.1.html

Special Instructions and Notes:

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • Magnum Orchestration 7
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-Magnum-Orchestration-7-2017-974=1
  • SUSE Manager Client Tools for SLE 12
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Manager-Tools-12-2017-974=1
  • Advanced Systems Management Module 12
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Adv-Systems-Management-12-2017-974=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service Image Server 12 12-SP2
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-POS-12-SP2-2017-974=1
  • SUSE Enterprise Storage 3
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-Storage-3-2017-974=1
  • SUSE Enterprise Storage 4
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-Storage-4-2017-974=1
  • SUSE Manager Proxy 3.0
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SUSE-Manager-Proxy-3.0-2017-974=1
  • SUSE Manager Server 3.0
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SUSE-Manager-Server-3.0-2017-974=1

Package List:

  • Magnum Orchestration 7 (x86_64)
    • salt-minion-2016.11.4-45.2
    • salt-2016.11.4-45.2
  • SUSE Manager Client Tools for SLE 12 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • salt-minion-2016.11.4-45.2
    • salt-doc-2016.11.4-45.2
    • salt-2016.11.4-45.2
  • Advanced Systems Management Module 12 (ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • salt-cloud-2016.11.4-45.2
    • salt-ssh-2016.11.4-45.2
    • salt-2016.11.4-45.2
    • salt-proxy-2016.11.4-45.2
    • salt-master-2016.11.4-45.2
    • salt-doc-2016.11.4-45.2
    • salt-api-2016.11.4-45.2
    • salt-syndic-2016.11.4-45.2
    • salt-minion-2016.11.4-45.2
  • Advanced Systems Management Module 12 (noarch)
    • salt-zsh-completion-2016.11.4-45.2
    • salt-bash-completion-2016.11.4-45.2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service Image Server 12 12-SP2 (x86_64)
    • salt-minion-2016.11.4-45.2
    • salt-2016.11.4-45.2
  • SUSE Enterprise Storage 3 (x86_64)
    • salt-minion-2016.11.4-45.2
    • salt-master-2016.11.4-45.2
    • salt-2016.11.4-45.2
  • SUSE Enterprise Storage 4 (aarch64 x86_64)
    • salt-minion-2016.11.4-45.2
    • salt-master-2016.11.4-45.2
    • salt-2016.11.4-45.2
  • SUSE Manager Proxy 3.0 (x86_64)
    • salt-ssh-2016.11.4-45.2
    • salt-2016.11.4-45.2
    • salt-proxy-2016.11.4-45.2
    • salt-master-2016.11.4-45.2
    • salt-doc-2016.11.4-45.2
    • salt-api-2016.11.4-45.2
    • salt-syndic-2016.11.4-45.2
    • salt-minion-2016.11.4-45.2
  • SUSE Manager Proxy 3.0 (noarch)
    • salt-zsh-completion-2016.11.4-45.2
    • salt-bash-completion-2016.11.4-45.2
  • SUSE Manager Server 3.0 (s390x x86_64)
    • salt-ssh-2016.11.4-45.2
    • salt-2016.11.4-45.2
    • salt-proxy-2016.11.4-45.2
    • salt-master-2016.11.4-45.2
    • salt-doc-2016.11.4-45.2
    • salt-api-2016.11.4-45.2
    • salt-syndic-2016.11.4-45.2
    • salt-minion-2016.11.4-45.2
  • SUSE Manager Server 3.0 (noarch)
    • salt-zsh-completion-2016.11.4-45.2
    • salt-bash-completion-2016.11.4-45.2

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