suse-su-2019:13976-1
Vulnerability from csaf_suse
Published
2019-03-12 17:40
Modified
2019-03-12 17:40
Summary
Security update for supportutils

Notes

Title of the patch
Security update for supportutils
Description of the patch
This update for supportutils fixes the following issues: Security vulnerabilities fixed: - CVE-2018-19636: Local root exploit via inclusion of attacker controlled shell script (bsc#1117751) - CVE-2018-19640: Users can kill arbitrary processes (bsc#1118463) - CVE-2018-19638: User can overwrite arbitrary log files in support tar (bsc#1118460) - CVE-2018-19639: Code execution if run with -v (bsc#1118462)
Patchnames
sleposp3-supportutils-13976,slessp4-supportutils-13976
Terms of use
CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).


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