Security update for Salt
This update for salt fixes one security issue and bugs. The following security issues have been fixed: - CVE-2017-14695: A directory traversal vulnerability in minion id validation allowed remote minions with incorrect credentials to authenticate to a master via a crafted minion ID. (bsc#1062462) - CVE-2017-14696: It was possible to force a remote Denial of Service with a specially crafted authentication request. (bsc#1062464) Additionally, the following non-security issues have been fixed: - Removed deprecation warning for beacon configuration using dictionaries. (bsc#1041993) - Fixed beacons failure when pillar-based suppressing config-based. (bsc#1060230) - Fixed minion resource exhaustion when many functions are being executed in parallel. (bsc#1059758) - Remove 'TasksTask' attribute from salt-master.service in older versions of systemd. (bsc#985112) - Fix for delete_deployment in Kubernetes module. (bsc#1059291) - Catching error when PIDfile cannot be deleted. (bsc#1050003) - Use $HOME to get the user home directory instead using '~' char. (bsc#1042749)
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
This update for salt fixes one security issue and bugs. The following security issues have been fixed: - CVE-2017-14695: A directory traversal vulnerability in minion id validation allowed remote minions with incorrect credentials to authenticate to a master via a crafted minion ID. (bsc#1062462) - CVE-2017-14696: It was possible to force a remote Denial of Service with a specially crafted authentication request. (bsc#1062464) Additionally, the following non-security issues have been fixed: - Removed deprecation warning for beacon configuration using dictionaries. (bsc#1041993) - Fixed beacons failure when pillar-based suppressing config-based. (bsc#1060230) - Fixed minion resource exhaustion when many functions are being executed in parallel. (bsc#1059758) - Remove 'TasksTask' attribute from salt-master.service in older versions of systemd. (bsc#985112) - Fix for delete_deployment in Kubernetes module. (bsc#1059291) - Catching error when PIDfile cannot be deleted. (bsc#1050003) - Use $HOME to get the user home directory instead using '~' char. (bsc#1042749)
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1041993
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1042749
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1050003
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1059291
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1059758
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1060230
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1062462
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1062464
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/985112
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-14695
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-14696
- https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2017/suse-su-20173380-1/