Security update for glib2

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:3913-1
Rating: moderate
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CVSS scores:
  • CVE-2018-16428 ( SUSE ): 4.0 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
  • CVE-2018-16428 ( NVD ): 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • CVE-2018-16429 ( SUSE ): 4.0 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
  • CVE-2018-16429 ( NVD ): 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected Products:
  • Basesystem Module 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15
  • SUSE Package Hub 15

An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has one security fix can now be installed.

Description:

This update for glib2 fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed:

  • CVE-2018-16428: Do not do a NULL pointer dereference (crash). Avoid that, at the cost of introducing a new translatable error message (bsc#1107121).
  • CVE-2018-16429: Fixed out-of-bounds read vulnerability ing_markup_parse_context_parse() (bsc#1107116).

Non-security issue fixed:

  • various GVariant parsing issues have been resolved (bsc#1111499)

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
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-2018-2780=1
  • SUSE Package Hub 15
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Packagehub-Subpackages-15-2018-2780=1

Package List:

  • Basesystem Module 15 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • libgobject-2_0-0-debuginfo-2.54.3-4.7.1
    • libgmodule-2_0-0-debuginfo-2.54.3-4.7.1
    • libglib-2_0-0-2.54.3-4.7.1
    • glib2-devel-2.54.3-4.7.1
    • glib2-tools-debuginfo-2.54.3-4.7.1
    • libgio-2_0-0-debuginfo-2.54.3-4.7.1
    • libgio-2_0-0-2.54.3-4.7.1
    • libglib-2_0-0-debuginfo-2.54.3-4.7.1
    • libgmodule-2_0-0-2.54.3-4.7.1
    • libgobject-2_0-0-2.54.3-4.7.1
    • libgthread-2_0-0-debuginfo-2.54.3-4.7.1
    • libgthread-2_0-0-2.54.3-4.7.1
    • glib2-debugsource-2.54.3-4.7.1
    • glib2-devel-debuginfo-2.54.3-4.7.1
    • glib2-tools-2.54.3-4.7.1
  • Basesystem Module 15 (noarch)
    • glib2-lang-2.54.3-4.7.1
  • Basesystem Module 15 (x86_64)
    • libgio-2_0-0-32bit-2.54.3-4.7.1
    • libgmodule-2_0-0-32bit-2.54.3-4.7.1
    • libgio-2_0-0-32bit-debuginfo-2.54.3-4.7.1
    • libglib-2_0-0-32bit-2.54.3-4.7.1
    • libgmodule-2_0-0-32bit-debuginfo-2.54.3-4.7.1
    • libgobject-2_0-0-32bit-2.54.3-4.7.1
    • libgobject-2_0-0-32bit-debuginfo-2.54.3-4.7.1
    • libglib-2_0-0-32bit-debuginfo-2.54.3-4.7.1
  • SUSE Package Hub 15 (x86_64)
    • glib2-devel-32bit-debuginfo-2.54.3-4.7.1
    • glib2-tools-32bit-debuginfo-2.54.3-4.7.1
    • libgthread-2_0-0-32bit-debuginfo-2.54.3-4.7.1
    • glib2-tools-32bit-2.54.3-4.7.1
    • glib2-devel-32bit-2.54.3-4.7.1
    • glib2-debugsource-2.54.3-4.7.1
    • libgthread-2_0-0-32bit-2.54.3-4.7.1

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