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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-2020:0302-1
Rating: moderate
References: #1148788 #1160594 #1160764 #1161779 #1163922

Cross-References: CVE-2019-3687 CVE-2020-8013
Affected Products:
openSUSE Leap 15.1
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An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has three
fixes is now available.

Description:

This update for permissions fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed:

- CVE-2019-3687: Fixed a privilege escalation which could allow a local
user to read network traffic if wireshark is installed (bsc#1148788)
- CVE-2020-8013: Fixed an issue where chkstat set unintended
setuid/capabilities for mrsh and wodim (bsc#1163922).

Non-security issues fixed:

- Fixed a regression where chkstat breaks without /proc available
(bsc#1160764, bsc#1160594).
- Fixed capability handling when doing multiple permission changes at once
(bsc#1161779).

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-2020-302=1


Package List:

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (i586 x86_64):

permissions-20181116-lp151.4.12.1
permissions-debuginfo-20181116-lp151.4.12.1
permissions-debugsource-20181116-lp151.4.12.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (noarch):

permissions-zypp-plugin-20181116-lp151.4.12.1

References:

  https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-3687.html
  https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-8013.html
  https://bugzilla.suse.com/1148788
  https://bugzilla.suse.com/1160594
  https://bugzilla.suse.com/1160764
  https://bugzilla.suse.com/1161779
  https://bugzilla.suse.com/1163922