Security update for libcap-ng

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2017:0375-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • SLES for SAP Applications 11-SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4

An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

Description:

libcap-ng was updated to fix one security issue.

This security issue was fixed:

  • CVE-2014-3215: seunshare in policycoreutils (which uses libcap-ng) is owned by root with 4755 permissions, and executes programs in a way that changes the relationship between the setuid system call and the getresuid saved set-user-ID value, which made it easier for local users to gain privileges by leveraging a program that mistakenly expected that it could permanently drop privileges (bsc#876832).

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4
    zypper in -t patch sdksp4-libcap-ng-12965=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4
    zypper in -t patch slessp4-libcap-ng-12965=1
  • SLES for SAP Applications 11-SP4
    zypper in -t patch slessp4-libcap-ng-12965=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 (s390x x86_64 i586 ppc64 ia64)
    • libcap-ng-devel-0.6.3-1.9.6
    • python-capng-0.6.3-1.9.6
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 (s390x x86_64 i586 ppc64 ia64)
    • libcap-ng-utils-0.6.3-1.9.6
    • libcap-ng0-0.6.3-1.9.6
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 (ppc64 s390x x86_64)
    • libcap-ng0-32bit-0.6.3-1.9.6
  • SLES for SAP Applications 11-SP4 (ppc64 x86_64)
    • libcap-ng-utils-0.6.3-1.9.6
    • libcap-ng0-0.6.3-1.9.6
    • libcap-ng0-32bit-0.6.3-1.9.6

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