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OPENSUSE-SU-2019:1779-1

Vulnerability from csaf_opensuse - Published: 2019-07-21 05:39 - Updated: 2019-07-21 05:39
Summary
Security update for ledger
Severity
Moderate
Notes
Title of the patch: Security update for ledger
Description of the patch: This update for ledger fixes the following issues: ledger was updated to 3.1.3: + Properly reject postings with a comment right after the flag (bug #1753) + Make sorting order of lot information deterministic (bug #1747) + Fix bug in tag value parsing (bug #1702) + Remove the org command, which was always a hack to begin with (bug #1706) + Provide Docker information in README + Various small documentation improvements This also includes the update to 3.1.2: + Increase maximum length for regex from 255 to 4095 (bug #981) + Initialize periods from from/since clause rather than earliest transaction date (bug #1159) + Check balance assertions against the amount after the posting (bug #1147) + Allow balance assertions with multiple posts to same account (bug #1187) + Fix period duration of 'every X days' and similar statements (bug #370) + Make option --force-color not require --color anymore (bug #1109) + Add quoted_rfc4180 to allow CVS output with RFC 4180 compliant quoting. + Add support for --prepend-format in accounts command + Fix handling of edge cases in trim function (bug #520) + Fix auto xact posts not getting applied to account total during journal parse (bug #552) + Transfer null_post flags to generated postings + Fix segfault when using --market with --group-by + Use amount_width variable for budget report + Keep pending items in budgets until the last day they apply + Fix bug where .total used in value expressions breaks totals + Make automated transactions work with assertions (bug #1127) + Improve parsing of date tokens (bug #1626) + Don't attempt to invert a value if it's already zero (bug #1703) + Do not parse user-specified init-file twice + Fix parsing issue of effective dates (bug #1722, TALOS-2017-0303, CVE-2017-2807) + Fix use-after-free issue with deferred postings (bug #1723, TALOS-2017-0304, CVE-2017-2808) + Fix possible stack overflow in option parsing routine (bug #1222, CVE-2017-12481) + Fix possible stack overflow in date parsing routine (bug #1224, CVE-2017-12482) + Fix use-after-free when using --gain (bug #541) + Python: Removed double quotes from Unicode values. + Python: Ensure that parse errors produce useful RuntimeErrors + Python: Expose journal expand_aliases + Python: Expose journal_t::register_account + Improve bash completion + Emacs Lisp files have been moved to https://github.com/ledger/ledger-mode + Various documentation improvements
Patchnames: openSUSE-2019-1779
Terms of use: CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).
CVE-2017-12481
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Product Identifier Version Remediation
Unresolved product id: openSUSE Leap 15.0:ledger-3.1.3-lp151.3.3.1.x86_64 —
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: openSUSE Leap 15.1:ledger-3.1.3-lp151.3.3.1.x86_64 —
Vendor Fix
Threats
Impact important
CVE-2017-12482
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Recommended 2 products, the same list as for CVE-2017-12481
Threats
Impact important
CVE-2017-2807
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Recommended 2 products, the same list as for CVE-2017-12481
Threats
Impact important
CVE-2017-2808
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Recommended 2 products, the same list as for CVE-2017-12481
Threats
Impact important
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