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A trousers security update has been released for openSUSE Leap 15.1



openSUSE Security Update: Security update for trousers
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:0015-1
Rating: moderate
References: #1157651
Cross-References: CVE-2019-18898
Affected Products:
openSUSE Leap 15.1
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An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description:

This update for trousers fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2019-18898: Fixed a local symlink attack where a rogue tss user
could have gain ownership of arbitrary files in the system during
installation/update of the trousers package (bsc#1157651).

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-2020-15=1


Package List:

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (i586 x86_64):

libtspi1-0.3.14-lp151.4.3.1
libtspi1-debuginfo-0.3.14-lp151.4.3.1
trousers-0.3.14-lp151.4.3.1
trousers-debuginfo-0.3.14-lp151.4.3.1
trousers-debugsource-0.3.14-lp151.4.3.1
trousers-devel-0.3.14-lp151.4.3.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (x86_64):

libtspi1-32bit-0.3.14-lp151.4.3.1
libtspi1-32bit-debuginfo-0.3.14-lp151.4.3.1

References:

  https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-18898.html
  https://bugzilla.suse.com/1157651