SUSE-SU-2020:0684-1

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Source
https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2020/suse-su-20200684-1/
Import Source
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/osv/SUSE-SU-2020:0684-1.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/SUSE-SU-2020:0684-1
Upstream
  • CVE-2019-18897
Related
Published
2020-03-13T12:42:49Z
Modified
2025-05-08T17:14:37.906542Z
Summary
Security update for salt
Details

This update for salt fixes the following issues:

  • Avoid possible user escalation upgrading salt-master (bsc#1157465) (CVE-2019-18897)
  • Fix unit tests failures in testbatchasync tests
  • Batch Async: Handle exceptions, properly unregister and close instances after running async batching to avoid CPU starvation of the MWorkers (bsc#1162327)
  • RHEL/CentOS 8 uses platform-python instead of python3
  • New configuration option for selection of grains in the minion start event.
  • Fix 'os_family' grain for Astra Linux Common Edition
  • Fix for salt-api NET API where unauthenticated attacker could run arbitrary code (CVE-2019-17361) (bsc#1162504)
  • Adds disabled parameter to mod_repo in aptpkg module Move token with atomic operation Bad API token files get deleted (bsc#1160931)
  • Support for Btrfs and XFS in parted and mkfs added
  • Adds listdownloaded for apt Module to enable pre-downloading support Adds virt.(pool|network)get_xml functions
  • Various libvirt updates:
    • Add virt.poolcapabilities function
    • virt.poolrunning improvements
    • Add virt.pooldeleted state
    • virt.networkdefine allow adding IP configuration
  • virt: adding kernel boot parameters to libvirt xml
  • Fix to scheduler when data['run'] does not exist (bsc#1159118)
  • Fix virt states to not fail on VMs already stopped
  • Fix applying of attributes for returner rawfile_json (bsc#1158940)
  • xfs: do not fail if type is not present (bsc#1153611)
  • Fix errors when running virt.get_hypervisor function
  • Align virt.full_info fixes with upstream Salt
  • Fix for log checking in x509 test
  • Read repo info without using interpolation (bsc#1135656)
  • Limiting M2Crypto to >= SLE15
  • Replacing pycrypto with M2Crypto (bsc#1165425)
References

Affected packages

SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP1

salt

Package

Name
salt
Purl
pkg:rpm/suse/salt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP1

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2019.2.0-6.24.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "salt": "2019.2.0-6.24.1",
            "salt-minion": "2019.2.0-6.24.1",
            "python3-salt": "2019.2.0-6.24.1",
            "salt-doc": "2019.2.0-6.24.1",
            "salt-bash-completion": "2019.2.0-6.24.1",
            "salt-zsh-completion": "2019.2.0-6.24.1"
        }
    ]
}

SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Python 2 15 SP1

salt

Package

Name
salt
Purl
pkg:rpm/suse/salt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Python%202%2015%20SP1

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2019.2.0-6.24.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "python2-salt": "2019.2.0-6.24.1"
        }
    ]
}

SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 SP1

salt

Package

Name
salt
Purl
pkg:rpm/suse/salt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Server%20Applications%2015%20SP1

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2019.2.0-6.24.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "salt-ssh": "2019.2.0-6.24.1",
            "salt-cloud": "2019.2.0-6.24.1",
            "salt-proxy": "2019.2.0-6.24.1",
            "salt-api": "2019.2.0-6.24.1",
            "salt-master": "2019.2.0-6.24.1",
            "salt-fish-completion": "2019.2.0-6.24.1",
            "salt-syndic": "2019.2.0-6.24.1",
            "salt-standalone-formulas-configuration": "2019.2.0-6.24.1"
        }
    ]
}