A permissions security update has been released for openSUSE Leap 15.1

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for permissions
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2019:2672-1
Rating: moderate
References: #1093414 #1150734 #1157198
Cross-References: CVE-2019-3688 CVE-2019-3690
Affected Products:
openSUSE Leap 15.1
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An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has one
errata is now available.

Description:

This update for permissions fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2019-3688: Changed wrong ownership in /usr/sbin/pinger to root:squid
which could have allowed a squid user to gain persistence by changing
the binary (bsc#1093414).
- CVE-2019-3690: Fixed a privilege escalation through untrusted symbolic
links (bsc#1150734).
- Fixed a regression which caused sagmentation fault (bsc#1157198).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15-SP1:Update update project.

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods
like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2019-2672=1


Package List:

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (i586 x86_64):

permissions-20181116-lp151.4.9.1
permissions-debuginfo-20181116-lp151.4.9.1
permissions-debugsource-20181116-lp151.4.9.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (noarch):

permissions-zypp-plugin-20181116-lp151.4.9.1

References:

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-3688.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-3690.html
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1093414
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1150734
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1157198