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SUSE-RU-2020:0685-1 Not scored

Recommended update for Salt

This update fixes the following issues: salt: - 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 list_downloaded for apt Module to enable pre-downloading support - Adds virt.(pool|network)_get_xml functions - 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) - Don't use __python indirection macros on spec file %__python is no longer defined in RPM 4.15 (python2 is going EOL in Jan 2020); additionally, python/python3 are just binaries in the path. - Fix errors when running virt.get_hypervisor function - Align virt.full_info fixes with upstream Salt - Fix for log checking in x509 test - Prevent test_mod_del_repo_multiline_values to fail - Read repo info without using interpolation (bsc#1135656) - Replacing pycrypto with M2Crypto as dependency for >= SLE15 (bsc#1165425) - Batch Async: Handle exceptions, properly unregister and close instances after running async batching to avoid CPU starvation of the MWorkers (bsc#1162327) - Avoid possible user escalation upgrading salt-master (bsc#1157465) (CVE-2019-18897)

Exploit probability Not scored
Published March 13, 2020
Required by Not available
Last source change February 4, 2026

02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE

Affected packages

SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Advanced Systems Management 12 salt
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 12 SP2 salt
SUSE:Manager Client Tools 12 salt
SUSE:Manager Proxy 3.2 salt
SUSE:Manager Server 3.2 salt

03 / CONNECTIONS

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04 / EVIDENCE

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Open Source Vulnerabilities SUSE-RU-2020:0685-1

This update fixes the following issues: salt: - 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 list_downloaded for apt Module to enable pre-downloading support - Adds virt.(pool|network)_get_xml functions - 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) - Don't use __python indirection macros on spec file %__python is no longer defined in RPM 4.15 (python2 is going EOL in Jan 2020); additionally, python/python3 are just binaries in the path. - Fix errors when running virt.get_hypervisor function - Align virt.full_info fixes with upstream Salt - Fix for log checking in x509 test - Prevent test_mod_del_repo_multiline_values to fail - Read repo info without using interpolation (bsc#1135656) - Replacing pycrypto with M2Crypto as dependency for >= SLE15 (bsc#1165425) - Batch Async: Handle exceptions, properly unregister and close instances after running async batching to avoid CPU starvation of the MWorkers (bsc#1162327) - Avoid possible user escalation upgrading salt-master (bsc#1157465) (CVE-2019-18897)

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