Security update for salt

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2020:3243-1
Rating: critical
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CVSS scores:
  • CVE-2020-16846 ( SUSE ): 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • CVE-2020-16846 ( NVD ): 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • CVE-2020-17490 ( SUSE ): 6.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
  • CVE-2020-17490 ( NVD ): 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
  • CVE-2020-25592 ( SUSE ): 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • CVE-2020-25592 ( NVD ): 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected Products:
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP1
  • Python 2 Module 15-SP1
  • Server Applications Module 15-SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 Business Critical Linux 15-SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP1
  • SUSE Manager Proxy 4.0
  • SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.0
  • SUSE Manager Server 4.0

An update that solves three vulnerabilities and has seven security fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for salt fixes the following issues:

  • Avoid regression on "salt-master": set passphrase for salt-ssh keys to empty string (bsc#1178485)
  • Properly validate eauth credentials and tokens on SSH calls made by Salt API (bsc#1178319, bsc#1178362, bsc#1178361, CVE-2020-25592, CVE-2020-17490, CVE-2020-16846)
  • Fix disk.blkid to avoid unexpected keyword argument '__pub_user'. (bsc#1177867)
  • Ensure virt.update stop_on_reboot is updated with its default value.
  • Do not break package building for systemd OSes.
  • Drop wrong mock from chroot unit test.
  • Support systemd versions with dot. (bsc#1176294)
  • Fix for grains.test_core unit test.
  • Fix file/directory user and group ownership containing UTF-8 characters. (bsc#1176024)
  • Several changes to virtualization:
  • Fix virt update when cpu and memory are changed.
  • Memory Tuning GSoC.
  • Properly fix memory setting regression in virt.update.
  • Expose libvirt on_reboot in virt states.
  • Support transactional systems (MicroOS).
  • zypperpkg module ignores retcode 104 for search(). (bsc#1159670)
  • Xen disk fixes. No longer generates volumes for Xen disks, but the corresponding file or block disk. (bsc#1175987)
  • Invalidate file list cache when cache file modified time is in the future. (bsc#1176397)
  • Prevent import errors when running test_btrfs unit tests

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:

  • Basesystem Module 15-SP1
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP1-2020-3243=1
  • Python 2 Module 15-SP1
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Python2-15-SP1-2020-3243=1
  • Server Applications Module 15-SP1
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Server-Applications-15-SP1-2020-3243=1

Package List:

  • Basesystem Module 15-SP1 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • python3-salt-3000-6.51.1
    • salt-minion-3000-6.51.1
    • salt-3000-6.51.1
    • salt-doc-3000-6.51.1
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP1 (noarch)
    • salt-zsh-completion-3000-6.51.1
    • salt-bash-completion-3000-6.51.1
  • Python 2 Module 15-SP1 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • python2-salt-3000-6.51.1
  • Server Applications Module 15-SP1 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • salt-cloud-3000-6.51.1
    • salt-master-3000-6.51.1
    • salt-standalone-formulas-configuration-3000-6.51.1
    • salt-proxy-3000-6.51.1
    • salt-syndic-3000-6.51.1
    • salt-ssh-3000-6.51.1
    • salt-api-3000-6.51.1
  • Server Applications Module 15-SP1 (noarch)
    • salt-fish-completion-3000-6.51.1

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