Security update for open-iscsi

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2021:0127-1
Rating: important
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 two security fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for open-iscsi fixes the following issues:

  • Updated to upstream version 2.1.3 as 2.1.3-suse, for bsc#1179908, including:
  • uip: check for TCP urgent pointer past end of frame
  • uip: check for u8 overflow when processing TCP options
  • uip: check for header length underflow during checksum calculation
  • fwparam_ppc: Fix memory leak in fwparam_ppc.c
  • iscsiuio: Remove unused macro IFNAMSIZ defined in iscsid_ipc.c
  • fwparam_ppc: Fix illegal memory access in fwparam_ppc.c
  • sysfs: Verify parameter of sysfs_device_get()
  • fwparam_ppc: Fix NULL pointer dereference in find_devtree()
  • open-iscsi: Clean user_param list when process exit
  • iscsi_net_util: Fix NULL pointer dereference in find_vlan_dev()
  • open-iscsi: Fix NULL pointer dereference in mgmt_ipc_read_req()
  • open-iscsi: Fix invalid pointer deference in find_initiator()
  • iscsiuio: Fix invalid parameter when call fstat()
  • iscsi-iname: Verify open() return value before calling read()

  • iscsi_sysfs: Fix NULL pointer deference in iscsi_sysfs_read_iface

  • Updatged to latest upstream, including:

  • iscsiadm: Optimize the the verification of mode paramters
  • iscsid: Poll timeout value to 1 minute for iscsid
  • iscsiadm: fix host stats mode coredump
  • iscsid: fix logging level when starting and shutting down daemon
  • Updated iscsiadm man page.
  • Fix memory leak in sysfs_get_str

  • libopeniscsiusr: Compare with max int instead of max long

  • Systemd unit files should not depend on network.target (bsc#1179440).

  • Updated to latest upstream, including async login ability:

  • Implement login "no_wait" for iscsiadm NODE mode
  • iscsiadm buffer overflow regression when discovering many targets at once
  • iscsid: Check Invalid Session id for stop connection

  • Add ability to attempt target logins asynchronously

  • %service_del_postun_without_restart is now available on SLE More accurately it's been introduced in SLE12-SP2+ and SLE15+

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-SP2-2021-127=1

Package List:

  • Basesystem Module 15-SP2 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • open-iscsi-debugsource-2.1.3-22.6.1
    • libopeniscsiusr0_2_0-2.1.3-22.6.1
    • open-iscsi-devel-2.1.3-22.6.1
    • open-iscsi-2.1.3-22.6.1
    • iscsiuio-debuginfo-0.7.8.6-22.6.1
    • open-iscsi-debuginfo-2.1.3-22.6.1
    • iscsiuio-0.7.8.6-22.6.1
    • libopeniscsiusr0_2_0-debuginfo-2.1.3-22.6.1

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