Security update for supportutils

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2019:0480-1
Rating: important
References:
Cross-References:
CVSS scores:
  • CVE-2018-19637 ( SUSE ): 7.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • CVE-2018-19637 ( NVD ): 5.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
  • CVE-2018-19638 ( SUSE ): 3.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
  • CVE-2018-19638 ( NVD ): 4.7 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
  • CVE-2018-19639 ( SUSE ): 7.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • CVE-2018-19639 ( NVD ): 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • CVE-2018-19640 ( SUSE ): 5.0 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • CVE-2018-19640 ( NVD ): 5.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/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 four vulnerabilities and has nine security fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for supportutils fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed:

  • CVE-2018-19640: Fixed an issue where users could kill arbitrary processes (bsc#1118463).
  • CVE-2018-19638: Fixed an issue where users could overwrite arbitrary log files (bsc#1118460).
  • CVE-2018-19639: Fixed a code execution if run with -v (bsc#1118462).
  • CVE-2018-19637: Fixed an issue where static temporary filename could allow overwriting of files (bsc#1117776).

Other issues fixed:

  • Fixed invalid exit code commands (bsc#1125666).
  • Included additional SUSE separation (bsc#1125609).
  • Merged added listing of locked packes by zypper.
  • Exclude pam.txt per GDPR by default (bsc#1112461).
  • Clarified -x functionality in supportconfig(8) (bsc#1115245).
  • udev service and provide the whole journal content in supportconfig (bsc#1051797).
  • supportconfig collects tuned profile settings (bsc#1071545).
  • sfdisk -d no disk device specified (bsc#1043311).
  • Added vulnerabilites status check in basic-health.txt (bsc#1105849).
  • Added only sched_domain from cpu0.
  • Blacklist sched_domain from proc.txt (bsc#1046681).
  • Added firewall-cmd info.
  • Add ls -lA --time-style=long-iso /etc/products.d/
  • Dump lsof errors.
  • Added corosync status to ha_info.
  • Dump find errors in ib_info.

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-15-2019-480=1

Package List:

  • Basesystem Module 15 (noarch)
    • supportutils-3.1-5.7.1

References: