OPENSUSE-SU-2019:0293-1
Vulnerability from csaf_opensuse - Published: 2019-03-23 11:09 - Updated: 2026-09-20 18:47Summary
Security update for supportutils
Severity
Important
Notes
Title of the patch: Security update for supportutils
Description of the patch: This update for supportutils fixes the following issues:
Security issues fixed:
- CVE-2018-19640: Fixed an issue where users could kill arbitrary processes (bsc#1118463).
- CVE-2018-19638: Fixed an issue where users could overwrite arbitrary log files (bsc#1118460).
- CVE-2018-19639: Fixed a code execution if run with -v (bsc#1118462).
- CVE-2018-19637: Fixed an issue where static temporary filename could allow overwriting of files (bsc#1117776).
Other issues fixed:
- Fixed invalid exit code commands (bsc#1125666).
- Included additional SUSE separation (bsc#1125609).
- Merged added listing of locked packes by zypper.
- Exclude pam.txt per GDPR by default (bsc#1112461).
- Clarified -x functionality in supportconfig(8) (bsc#1115245).
- udev service and provide the whole journal content in supportconfig (bsc#1051797).
- supportconfig collects tuned profile settings (bsc#1071545).
- sfdisk -d no disk device specified (bsc#1043311).
- Added vulnerabilites status check in basic-health.txt (bsc#1105849).
- Added only sched_domain from cpu0.
- Blacklist sched_domain from proc.txt (bsc#1046681).
- Added firewall-cmd info.
- Add ls -lA --time-style=long-iso /etc/products.d/
- Dump lsof errors.
- Added corosync status to ha_info.
- Dump find errors in ib_info.
This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.
Patchnames: openSUSE-2019-293
Terms of use: CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).
7.3 (High)
Affected products
Recommended
1 product
| Product | Identifier | Version | Remediation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unresolved product id: openSUSE Leap 15.0:supportutils-0:3.1-lp150.4.3.1.noarch | — |
Vendor Fix
|
Threats
Impact
important
Affected products
Recommended
1 product, the same list as for
CVE-2018-19637
Threats
Impact
low
7.3 (High)
Affected products
Recommended
1 product, the same list as for
CVE-2018-19637
Threats
Impact
important
5 (Medium)
Affected products
Recommended
1 product, the same list as for
CVE-2018-19637
Threats
Impact
moderate
References
36 references
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