Security update for SUSE Manager Salt Bundle

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2024:1517-1
Rating: important
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Cross-References:
CVSS scores:
  • CVE-2024-22231 ( SUSE ): 5.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
  • CVE-2024-22232 ( SUSE ): 7.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
Affected Products:
  • 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 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

An update that solves two vulnerabilities, contains one feature and has five security fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update fixes the following issues:

venv-salt-minion:

  • Security issues fixed:

  • CVE-2024-22231: Prevent directory traversal when creating syndic cache directory on the master (bsc#1219430)

  • CVE-2024-22232: Prevent directory traversal attacks in the master's serve_file method (bsc#1219431)

  • Bugs fixed:

  • Convert oscap output to UTF-8

  • Make Salt compatible with Python 3.11
  • Ignore non-ascii chars in oscap output (bsc#1219001)
  • Fix detected issues in Salt tests when running on VMs
  • Make importing seco.range thread safe (bsc#1211649)
  • Fix problematic tests and allow smooth tests executions on containers
  • Discover Ansible playbook files as ".yml" or ".yaml" files (bsc#1211888)
  • Prevent exceptions with fileserver.update when called via state (bsc#1218482)
  • Improve pip target override condition with VENV_PIP_TARGET environment variable (bsc#1216850)
  • Fixed KeyError in logs when running a state that fails

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:

  • SUSE Manager Client Tools for SLE 12
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Manager-Tools-12-2024-1517=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Manager Client Tools for SLE 12 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • venv-salt-minion-3006.0-3.52.3

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