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SUSE-SU-2018:1757-1 Not scored

Security update for salt

This update for salt provides version 2018.3 and brings many fixes and improvements: - Fix for sorting of multi-version packages (bsc#1097174 and bsc#1097413) - Align SUSE salt-master.service 'LimitNOFILES' limit with upstream Salt - Add 'other' attribute to GECOS fields to avoid inconsistencies with chfn - Prevent zypper from parsing repo configuration from not .repo files (bsc#1094055) - Collect all versions of installed packages on SUSE and RHEL systems (bsc#1089526) - No more AWS EC2 rate limitations in salt-cloud. (bsc#1088888) - MySQL returner now also allows to use Unix sockets. (bsc#1091371) - Do not override jid on returners, only sending back to master. (bsc#1092373) - Remove minion/thin/version if exists to force thin regeneration. (bsc#1092161) - Fix minion scheduler to return a 'retcode' attribute. (bsc#1089112) - Fix for logging during network interface querying. (bsc#1087581) - Fix rhel packages requires both net-tools and iproute. (bsc#1087055) - Fix patchinstall on yum module. Bad comparison. (bsc#1087278) - Strip trailing commas on Linux user's GECOS fields. (bsc#1089362) - Fallback to PyMySQL. (bsc#1087891) - Fix for [Errno 0] Resolver Error 0 (no error). (bsc#1087581) - Add python-2.6 support to salt-ssh. - Make it possible to use docker login, pull and push from module.run and detect errors. - Fix unicode decode error with salt-ssh. - Fix cp.push empty file. (bsc#1075950) - Fix grains containing trailing '\n'. - Remove salt-minion python2 requirement when python3 is default. (bsc#1081592) - Restoring installation of packages for Rhel 6 and 7. - Prevent queryformat pattern from expanding. (bsc#1079048) - Fix for delete_deployment in Kubernetes module. (bsc#1059291) - Fix bsc#1062464 and CVE-2017-14696 already included in 2017.7.2. - Fix wrong version reported by Salt. (bsc#1061407) - Run salt-api as user salt. (bsc#1064520) For a detailed description, please refer to the upstream-changelog at https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/index.html or to the rpm-changelog. supportutils-plugin-salt: - Collect salt-api, salt-broker and salt-ssh log files (bsc#1090242)

Exploit probability Not scored
Published June 19, 2018
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 Client Tools 12 supportutils-plugin-salt
SUSE:Manager Proxy 3.0 salt
SUSE:Manager Proxy 3.0 supportutils-plugin-salt
SUSE:Manager Proxy 3.1 salt
SUSE:Manager Proxy 3.1 supportutils-plugin-salt
SUSE:Manager Server 3.0 salt
SUSE:Manager Server 3.0 supportutils-plugin-salt
SUSE:Manager Server 3.1 salt
SUSE:Manager Server 3.1 supportutils-plugin-salt

03 / CONNECTIONS

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04 / EVIDENCE

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Open Source Vulnerabilities SUSE-SU-2018:1757-1

This update for salt provides version 2018.3 and brings many fixes and improvements: - Fix for sorting of multi-version packages (bsc#1097174 and bsc#1097413) - Align SUSE salt-master.service 'LimitNOFILES' limit with upstream Salt - Add 'other' attribute to GECOS fields to avoid inconsistencies with chfn - Prevent zypper from parsing repo configuration from not .repo files (bsc#1094055) - Collect all versions of installed packages on SUSE and RHEL systems (bsc#1089526) - No more AWS EC2 rate limitations in salt-cloud. (bsc#1088888) - MySQL returner now also allows to use Unix sockets. (bsc#1091371) - Do not override jid on returners, only sending back to master. (bsc#1092373) - Remove minion/thin/version if exists to force thin regeneration. (bsc#1092161) - Fix minion scheduler to return a 'retcode' attribute. (bsc#1089112) - Fix for logging during network interface querying. (bsc#1087581) - Fix rhel packages requires both net-tools and iproute. (bsc#1087055) - Fix patchinstall on yum module. Bad comparison. (bsc#1087278) - Strip trailing commas on Linux user's GECOS fields. (bsc#1089362) - Fallback to PyMySQL. (bsc#1087891) - Fix for [Errno 0] Resolver Error 0 (no error). (bsc#1087581) - Add python-2.6 support to salt-ssh. - Make it possible to use docker login, pull and push from module.run and detect errors. - Fix unicode decode error with salt-ssh. - Fix cp.push empty file. (bsc#1075950) - Fix grains containing trailing '\n'. - Remove salt-minion python2 requirement when python3 is default. (bsc#1081592) - Restoring installation of packages for Rhel 6 and 7. - Prevent queryformat pattern from expanding. (bsc#1079048) - Fix for delete_deployment in Kubernetes module. (bsc#1059291) - Fix bsc#1062464 and CVE-2017-14696 already included in 2017.7.2. - Fix wrong version reported by Salt. (bsc#1061407) - Run salt-api as user salt. (bsc#1064520) For a detailed description, please refer to the upstream-changelog at https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/index.html or to the rpm-changelog. supportutils-plugin-salt: - Collect salt-api, salt-broker and salt-ssh log files (bsc#1090242)

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