Security update for corosync

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:1121-1
Rating: important
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CVSS scores:
  • CVE-2018-1084 ( SUSE ): 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • CVE-2018-1084 ( NVD ): 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • CVE-2018-1084 ( NVD ): 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 12 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP3

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

Description:

This update for corosync fixes the following issue: - CVE-2018-1084: Integer overflow in totemcrypto:authenticate_nss_2_3() could lead to command execution (bsc#1089346) - Providing an empty uid or gid results in coroparse adding uid 0. (bsc#1066585) - Fix a problem with configuration file incompatibilities that was causing corosync to not work after upgrading from SLE-11-SP4-HA to SLE-12/15-HA. (bsc#1083561)

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 Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-HA-12-SP3-2018-771=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 12 SP3
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-HA-12-SP3-2018-771=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP3
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP3-2018-771=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 (ppc64le x86_64)
    • libcorosync4-2.3.6-9.13.1
    • libcorosync4-debuginfo-2.3.6-9.13.1
    • corosync-debuginfo-2.3.6-9.13.1
    • corosync-2.3.6-9.13.1
    • corosync-debugsource-2.3.6-9.13.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 12 SP3 (ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • libcorosync4-2.3.6-9.13.1
    • libcorosync4-debuginfo-2.3.6-9.13.1
    • corosync-debuginfo-2.3.6-9.13.1
    • corosync-2.3.6-9.13.1
    • corosync-debugsource-2.3.6-9.13.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP3 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • corosync-debuginfo-2.3.6-9.13.1
    • libcorosync-devel-2.3.6-9.13.1
    • corosync-debugsource-2.3.6-9.13.1

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