A salt security update has been released for openSUSE Leap 15.3.

openSUSE-SU-2021:1951-1: important: Security update for salt

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for salt
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:1951-1
Rating: important
References: #1185281 #1186674 ECO-3212 SLE-18028 SLE-18033

Cross-References: CVE-2021-31607
CVSS scores:
CVE-2021-31607 (NVD) : 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVE-2021-31607 (SUSE): 7 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products:
openSUSE Leap 15.3
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An update that solves one vulnerability, contains three
features and has one errata is now available.

Description:

This update for salt fixes the following issues:

- Check if dpkgnotify is executable (bsc#1186674)
- Update to Salt release version 3002.2 (jsc#ECO-3212, jsc#SLE-18033,
jsc#SLE-18028)
- Drop support for Python2. Obsoletes `python2-salt` package
(jsc#SLE-18028)
- Fix issue parsing errors in ansiblegate state module
- Prevent command injection in the snapper module (bsc#1185281,
CVE-2021-31607)
- transactional_update: detect recursion in the executor
- Add subpackage `salt-transactional-update` (jsc#SLE-18033)
- Remove duplicate directories

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 15.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.3-2021-1951=1


Package List:

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

python3-salt-3002.2-8.41.8.1
salt-3002.2-8.41.8.1
salt-api-3002.2-8.41.8.1
salt-cloud-3002.2-8.41.8.1
salt-doc-3002.2-8.41.8.1
salt-master-3002.2-8.41.8.1
salt-minion-3002.2-8.41.8.1
salt-proxy-3002.2-8.41.8.1
salt-ssh-3002.2-8.41.8.1
salt-standalone-formulas-configuration-3002.2-8.41.8.1
salt-syndic-3002.2-8.41.8.1
salt-transactional-update-3002.2-8.41.8.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (noarch):

salt-bash-completion-3002.2-8.41.8.1
salt-fish-completion-3002.2-8.41.8.1
salt-zsh-completion-3002.2-8.41.8.1

References:

  https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-31607.html
  https://bugzilla.suse.com/1185281
  https://bugzilla.suse.com/1186674