An mgetty security update has been released for openSUSE Leap 15.1.

security-announce: openSUSE-SU-2020:0506-1: moderate: Security update for mgetty

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for mgetty
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:0506-1
Rating: moderate
References: #1142770 #1168170
Cross-References: CVE-2019-1010190
Affected Products:
openSUSE Leap 15.1
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An update that solves one vulnerability and has one errata
is now available.

Description:

This update for mgetty fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2019-1010190: Fixed a denial of service which could be caused by a
local attacker in putwhitespan() (bsc#1142770).
- Fixed a permission issue which have resulted in build failures
(bsc#1168170).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15: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-2020-506=1


Package List:

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (x86_64):

g3utils-1.1.37-lp151.4.3.1
g3utils-debuginfo-1.1.37-lp151.4.3.1
mgetty-1.1.37-lp151.4.3.1
mgetty-debuginfo-1.1.37-lp151.4.3.1
mgetty-debugsource-1.1.37-lp151.4.3.1
sendfax-1.1.37-lp151.4.3.1
sendfax-debuginfo-1.1.37-lp151.4.3.1

References:

  https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-1010190.html
  https://bugzilla.suse.com/1142770
  https://bugzilla.suse.com/1168170