Security update for systemd

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:3644-1
Rating: important
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CVSS scores:
  • CVE-2018-15686 ( SUSE ): 3.6 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
  • CVE-2018-15686 ( NVD ): 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • CVE-2018-15686 ( NVD ): 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • CVE-2018-15688 ( SUSE ): 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • CVE-2018-15688 ( NVD ): 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • CVE-2018-15688 ( NVD ): 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected Products:
  • Basesystem Module 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15

An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has 16 security fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for systemd fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed:

  • CVE-2018-15688: A buffer overflow vulnerability in the dhcp6 client of systemd allowed a malicious dhcp6 server to overwrite heap memory in systemd-networkd. (bsc#1113632)
  • CVE-2018-15686: A vulnerability in unit_deserialize of systemd allows an attacker to supply arbitrary state across systemd re-execution via NotifyAccess. This can be used to improperly influence systemd execution and possibly lead to root privilege escalation. (bsc#1113665)

Non security issues fixed:

  • dhcp6: split assert_return() to be more debuggable when hit
  • core: skip unit deserialization and move to the next one when unit_deserialize() fails
  • core: properly handle deserialization of unknown unit types (#6476)
  • core: don't create Requires for workdir if "missing ok" (bsc#1113083)
  • logind: use manager_get_user_by_pid() where appropriate
  • logind: rework manager_get_{user|session}_by_pid() a bit
  • login: fix user@.service case, so we don't allow nested sessions (#8051) (bsc#1112024)
  • core: be more defensive if we can't determine per-connection socket peer (#7329)
  • core: introduce systemd.early_core_pattern= kernel cmdline option
  • core: add missing 'continue' statement
  • core/mount: fstype may be NULL
  • journald: don't ship systemd-journald-audit.socket (bsc#1109252)
  • core: make "tmpfs" dependencies on swapfs a "default" dep, not an "implicit" (bsc#1110445)
  • mount: make sure we unmount tmpfs mounts before we deactivate swaps (#7076)
  • detect-virt: do not try to read all of /proc/cpuinfo (bsc#1109197)
  • emergency: make sure console password agents don't interfere with the emergency shell
  • man: document that 'nofail' also has an effect on ordering
  • journald: take leading spaces into account in syslog_parse_identifier
  • journal: do not remove multiple spaces after identifier in syslog message
  • syslog: fix segfault in syslog_parse_priority()
  • journal: fix syslog_parse_identifier()
  • install: drop left-over debug message (#6913)
  • Ship systemd-sysv-install helper via the main package This script was part of systemd-sysvinit sub-package but it was wrong since systemd-sysv-install is a script used to redirect enable/disable operations to chkconfig when the unit targets are sysv init scripts. Therefore it's never been a SySV init tool.
  • Add udev.no-partlabel-links kernel command-line option. This option can be used to disable the generation of the by-partlabel symlinks regardless of the name used. (bsc#1089761)
  • man: SystemMaxUse= clarification in journald.conf(5). (bsc#1101040)
  • systemctl: load unit if needed in "systemctl is-active" (bsc#1102908)
  • core: don't freeze OnCalendar= timer units when the clock goes back a lot (bsc#1090944)
  • Enable or disable machines.target according to the presets (bsc#1107941)
  • cryptsetup: add support for sector-size= option (fate#325697)
  • nspawn: always use permission mode 555 for /sys (bsc#1107640)
  • Bugfix for a race condition between daemon-reload and other commands (bsc#1105031)
  • Fixes an issue where login with root credentials was not possible in init level 5 (bsc#1091677)
  • Fix an issue where services of type "notify" harmless DENIED log entries. (bsc#991901)
  • Does no longer adjust qgroups on existing subvolumes (bsc#1093753)
  • cryptsetup: add support for sector-size= option (#9936) (fate#325697 bsc#1114135)

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:

  • Basesystem Module 15
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-2018-2595=1

Package List:

  • Basesystem Module 15 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • systemd-coredump-debuginfo-234-24.15.1
    • systemd-debugsource-234-24.15.1
    • udev-debuginfo-234-24.15.1
    • systemd-234-24.15.1
    • systemd-coredump-234-24.15.1
    • systemd-container-debuginfo-234-24.15.1
    • systemd-container-234-24.15.1
    • systemd-debuginfo-234-24.15.1
    • libudev-devel-234-24.15.1
    • libsystemd0-234-24.15.1
    • libudev1-234-24.15.1
    • libsystemd0-debuginfo-234-24.15.1
    • systemd-sysvinit-234-24.15.1
    • systemd-devel-234-24.15.1
    • libudev1-debuginfo-234-24.15.1
    • udev-234-24.15.1
  • Basesystem Module 15 (noarch)
    • systemd-bash-completion-234-24.15.1
  • Basesystem Module 15 (x86_64)
    • libudev1-32bit-234-24.15.1
    • libsystemd0-32bit-debuginfo-234-24.15.1
    • systemd-32bit-234-24.15.1
    • libsystemd0-32bit-234-24.15.1
    • libudev1-32bit-debuginfo-234-24.15.1
    • systemd-32bit-debuginfo-234-24.15.1

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