Security update for conntrack-tools

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2015:1545-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • SUSE Cloud for SLE 12 Compute Nodes 5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 12
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12

An update that solves one vulnerability and has one security fix can now be installed.

Description:

Fix a possible crash if conntrackd sees DCCP, SCTP and ICMPv6 traffic and the corresponding kernel modules that track this traffic are not available. (bsc#942149, CVE-2015-6496)

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:

  • SUSE Cloud for SLE 12 Compute Nodes 5
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE12-CLOUD-5-2015-527=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 12
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-HA-12-2015-527=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-HA-12-2015-527=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-2015-527=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Cloud for SLE 12 Compute Nodes 5 (x86_64)
    • libnetfilter_cthelper0-debuginfo-1.0.0-7.1
    • libnetfilter_cttimeout1-1.0.0-9.1
    • conntrack-tools-debugsource-1.4.2-5.2
    • libnetfilter_cttimeout1-debuginfo-1.0.0-9.1
    • conntrack-tools-debuginfo-1.4.2-5.2
    • libnetfilter_cttimeout-debugsource-1.0.0-9.1
    • conntrack-tools-1.4.2-5.2
    • libnetfilter_cthelper0-1.0.0-7.1
    • libnetfilter_cthelper-debugsource-1.0.0-7.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 12 (s390x x86_64)
    • libnetfilter_cthelper0-debuginfo-1.0.0-7.1
    • libnetfilter_cttimeout1-1.0.0-9.1
    • conntrack-tools-debugsource-1.4.2-5.2
    • libnetfilter_cttimeout1-debuginfo-1.0.0-9.1
    • conntrack-tools-debuginfo-1.4.2-5.2
    • libnetfilter_cttimeout-debugsource-1.0.0-9.1
    • conntrack-tools-1.4.2-5.2
    • libnetfilter_cthelper0-1.0.0-7.1
    • libnetfilter_cthelper-debugsource-1.0.0-7.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 (x86_64)
    • libnetfilter_cthelper0-debuginfo-1.0.0-7.1
    • libnetfilter_cttimeout1-1.0.0-9.1
    • conntrack-tools-debugsource-1.4.2-5.2
    • libnetfilter_cttimeout1-debuginfo-1.0.0-9.1
    • conntrack-tools-debuginfo-1.4.2-5.2
    • libnetfilter_cttimeout-debugsource-1.0.0-9.1
    • conntrack-tools-1.4.2-5.2
    • libnetfilter_cthelper0-1.0.0-7.1
    • libnetfilter_cthelper-debugsource-1.0.0-7.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 (ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • libnetfilter_cthelper0-debuginfo-1.0.0-7.1
    • libnetfilter_cttimeout1-1.0.0-9.1
    • libnetfilter_cthelper-devel-1.0.0-7.1
    • libnetfilter_cttimeout1-debuginfo-1.0.0-9.1
    • libnetfilter_cttimeout-debugsource-1.0.0-9.1
    • libnetfilter_cthelper0-1.0.0-7.1
    • libnetfilter_cthelper-debugsource-1.0.0-7.1
    • libnetfilter_cttimeout-devel-1.0.0-9.1

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