Security update for SUSE Manager Client Tools

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2021:2110-1
Rating: moderate
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CVSS scores:
  • CVE-2021-31607 ( SUSE ): 7.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • CVE-2021-31607 ( NVD ): 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected Products:
  • SUSE Manager Client Tools for Debian 9

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

Description:

This update fixes the following issues:

salt:

  • Fix issue parsing errors in ansiblegate state module
  • Prevent command injection in the snapper module (bsc#1185281) (CVE-2021-31607)
  • Transactional_update: detect recursion in the executor
  • Add subpackage salt-transactional-update
  • Remove duplicate directories from specfile
  • Improvements on "ansiblegate" module (bsc#1185092):
  • New methods: ansible.targets / ansible.discover_playbooks
  • Add support for Alibaba Cloud Linux 2 (Aliyun Linux)
  • Regression fix of salt-ssh on processing targets
  • Update target fix for salt-ssh and avoiding race condition on salt-ssh event processing (bsc#1179831, bsc#1182281)
  • Add notify beacon for Debian/Ubuntu systems
  • Fix zmq bug that causes salt-call to freeze (bsc#1181368)

spacecmd:

  • Rename system migration to system transfer
  • Rename SP to product migration
  • Update translation strings
  • Add group_addconfigchannel and group_removeconfigchannel
  • Add group_listconfigchannels and configchannel_listgroups
  • Fix spacecmd compat with Python 3
  • Deprecated "Software Crashes" feature
  • Document advanced package search on '--help' (bsc#1180583)
  • Fixed advanced search on 'package_listinstalledsystems'
  • Fixed duplicate results when using multiple search criteria (bsc#1180585)
  • Fixed "non-advanced" package search when using multiple package names (bsc#1180584)
  • Update translations
  • Fix: make spacecmd build on Debian
  • Add Service Pack migration operations (bsc#1173557)

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 Debian 9
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-Debian-9.0-CLIENT-TOOLS-x86_64-2021-2110=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Manager Client Tools for Debian 9 (all)
    • scap-security-guide-debian-0.1.55git20210323-2.3.1
    • spacecmd-4.2.8-2.10.1
    • salt-common-3000+ds-1+2.23.1
    • salt-minion-3000+ds-1+2.23.1

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