Security update for util-linux

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2022:1103-1
Rating: important
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CVSS scores:
  • CVE-2021-37600 ( SUSE ): 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • CVE-2021-37600 ( NVD ): 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 BCL 12-SP2

An update that solves one vulnerability and has 23 security fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for util-linux fixes the following issues:

  • Improve throughput and reduce clock sequence increments for high load situation with time based version 1 uuids. (bsc#1194642)
  • Prevent root owning of /var/lib/libuuid/clock.txt. (bsc#1194642)
  • Warn if uuidd lock state is not usable. (bsc#1194642)
  • Fix "su -s" bash completion. (bsc#1172427)
  • CVE-2021-37600: Fixed an integer overflow which could lead to buffer overflow in get_sem_elements. (bsc#1188921)
  • Load /etc/default/su (bsc#1116347).
  • Prevent outdated pam files (bsc#1082293, bsc#1081947#c68).
  • Do not trim read-only volumes (bsc#1106214).
  • libmount: To prevent incorrect behavior, recognize more pseudofs and netfs (bsc#1122417).
  • agetty: Reload issue only if it is really needed (bsc#1085196)
  • agetty: Return previous response of agetty for special characters (bsc#1085196, bsc#1125886)
  • blockdev: Do not fail --report on kpartx-style partitions on multipath. (bsc#1168235)
  • nologin: Add support for -c to prevent error from su -c. (bsc#1151708)
  • Avoid triggering autofs in lookup_umount_fs_by_statfs. (bsc#1168389)
  • libblkid: Do not trigger CDROM autoclose. (bsc#1084671)
  • Avoid sulogin failing on not existing or not functional console devices. (bsc#1175514)
  • Build with libudev support to support non-root users. (bsc#1169006)
  • lscpu: avoid segfault on PowerPC systems with valid hardware configurations. (bsc#1175623, bsc#1178554, bsc#1178825)
  • Fix for warning on mounts to CIFS with mount. (bsc#1174942)

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 Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 BCL 12-SP2
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-BCL-2022-1103=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 BCL 12-SP2 (x86_64)
    • libblkid1-32bit-2.28-44.35.1
    • libmount1-debuginfo-32bit-2.28-44.35.1
    • libuuid1-debuginfo-2.28-44.35.1
    • util-linux-debuginfo-2.28-44.35.1
    • libblkid1-debuginfo-32bit-2.28-44.35.1
    • util-linux-2.28-44.35.1
    • libmount1-32bit-2.28-44.35.1
    • libsmartcols1-debuginfo-2.28-44.35.1
    • uuidd-debuginfo-2.28-44.35.1
    • libuuid1-32bit-2.28-44.35.1
    • libfdisk1-debuginfo-2.28-44.35.1
    • util-linux-systemd-2.28-44.35.1
    • libblkid1-2.28-44.35.1
    • libuuid1-debuginfo-32bit-2.28-44.35.1
    • util-linux-systemd-debuginfo-2.28-44.35.1
    • python-libmount-2.28-44.35.1
    • python-libmount-debugsource-2.28-44.35.1
    • python-libmount-debuginfo-2.28-44.35.1
    • libblkid1-debuginfo-2.28-44.35.1
    • libsmartcols1-2.28-44.35.1
    • libmount1-2.28-44.35.1
    • uuidd-2.28-44.35.1
    • libfdisk1-2.28-44.35.1
    • util-linux-systemd-debugsource-2.28-44.35.1
    • util-linux-debugsource-2.28-44.35.1
    • libuuid1-2.28-44.35.1
    • libmount1-debuginfo-2.28-44.35.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 BCL 12-SP2 (noarch)
    • util-linux-lang-2.28-44.35.1

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