Recommended update for openscap

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2020:3950-1
Rating: moderate
References:
Affected Products:
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 Business Critical Linux 15-SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP2
  • SUSE Manager Proxy 4.1
  • SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.1
  • SUSE Manager Server 4.1

An update that has four fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for openscap fixes the following issues:

OpenSCAP was updated to 1.3.4.

  • add CPE dict entries for openSUSE Leap 15.1 and 15.2
  • add dbus-1-devel buildrequires to enable systemd tests (bsc#1178301)

openscap 1.3.4:

  • New features

    • Add support for FreeBSD
    • Make use of HTTP header content-encoding: gzip if available
    • Improved yamlfilecontent: updated yaml-filter, extend the schema and probe to be able to work with a set of values in maps

  • Maintenance, bug fixes

    • A lot of memory leaks have been plugged
    • Refactored rpmverifyfile probe and fixed memory leak
    • Fixed SEGFAULT caused by recursive and circular dependencies between OVAL definitions
    • Fixed DOM representation of the profile platform
    • Test suit: better portability, more granularity in results, inclusion of memory-related tests
    • Compatibility with uClibc
    • Local and remote file system detection method was improved
    • Make the report a valid HTML5 document
    • openscap: DISA STIG Viewer URL reference changed (bsc#1180456)

openscap 1.3.3:

Notable improvements in this release:

  • a Python script that can be used for CLI tailoring (autotailor) (thank you, Matěj Týč);
  • timezone for XCCDF TestResult start and end time (thank you, Jan Černý);
  • new yamlfilecontent independent probe (draft implementation), see the proposal https://github.com/OVAL-Community/OVAL/issues/91 for additional information.

There are other changes as well, here is the list:

  • Introduced urn:xccdf:fix:script:kubernetes fix type in XCCDF;
  • Added ability to generate machineconfig fix;
  • Detect ambiguous scan target (utils/oscap-podman);
  • Fixed #170: The rpmverifyfile probe can't verify files from '/bin' directory;
  • The data system_info probe return for offline and online modes is consistent and actual;
  • Prevent crashes when complicated regexes are executed in textfilecontent58 probe;
  • Fixed #1512: Severity refinement lost in generated guide;
  • Fixed #1453: Pointer lost in Swig API;
  • Evaluation Characteristics of the XCCDF report are now consistent with OVAL entities; from system_info probe;
  • Fixed filepath pattern matching in offline mode in textfilecontent58 probe;
  • Fixed infinite recursion in systemdunitdependency probe;
  • Fixed the case when CMake couldn't find libacl or xattr.h.

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-SP2
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP2-2020-3950=1

Package List:

  • Basesystem Module 15-SP2 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • openscap-utils-1.3.4-3.3.1
    • openscap-debuginfo-1.3.4-3.3.1
    • openscap-utils-debuginfo-1.3.4-3.3.1
    • libopenscap25-debuginfo-1.3.4-3.3.1
    • openscap-devel-1.3.4-3.3.1
    • openscap-content-1.3.4-3.3.1
    • openscap-debugsource-1.3.4-3.3.1
    • openscap-1.3.4-3.3.1
    • libopenscap25-1.3.4-3.3.1

References: