Security update for corosync

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:1130-1
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 High Availability Extension 12 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2

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

Description:

This update for corosync provides the following fixes:

  • 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 that was causing corosync memory to increase on ring breakup. (bsc#1083030)
  • 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 High Availability Extension 12 SP2
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-HA-12-SP2-2018-775=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-HA-12-SP2-2018-775=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 12 SP2 (ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • libcorosync4-debuginfo-2.3.5-6.23.1
    • corosync-2.3.5-6.23.1
    • corosync-debuginfo-2.3.5-6.23.1
    • libcorosync4-2.3.5-6.23.1
    • corosync-debugsource-2.3.5-6.23.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2 (ppc64le x86_64)
    • libcorosync4-debuginfo-2.3.5-6.23.1
    • corosync-2.3.5-6.23.1
    • corosync-debuginfo-2.3.5-6.23.1
    • libcorosync4-2.3.5-6.23.1
    • corosync-debugsource-2.3.5-6.23.1

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