openSUSE Security Update : texlive-filesystem (openSUSE-2020-368)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 134851

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for texlive-filesystem fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed :

- Changed default user for ls-R files and font cache directories to user nobody (bsc#1159740)

- Switched to rm instead of safe-rm or safe-rmdir to avoid race conditions (bsc#1158910) .

- Made cron script more failsafe (bsc#1150556)

Non-security issue fixed :

- Refreshed font map files on update (bsc#1155381)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

Solution

Update the affected texlive-filesystem packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1150556

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1155381

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1158910

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1159740

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 134851

File Name: openSUSE-2020-368.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/24/2020

Updated: 3/24/2020

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:texlive-collection-games, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:texlive-collection-humanities, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:texlive-collection-langarabic, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:texlive-collection-langchinese, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:texlive-collection-langcjk, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:texlive-collection-langcyrillic, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:texlive-collection-langczechslovak, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:texlive-collection-langenglish, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:texlive-collection-langeuropean, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:texlive-collection-langfrench, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:texlive-collection-langgerman, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:texlive-collection-langgreek, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:texlive-collection-langitalian, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:texlive-collection-langjapanese, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:texlive-collection-langkorean, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:texlive-collection-langother, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:texlive-collection-basic, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:texlive-collection-bibtexextra, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:texlive-collection-binextra, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:texlive-collection-context, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:texlive-collection-fontsextra, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:texlive-collection-fontsrecommended, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:texlive-collection-fontutils, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:texlive-collection-formatsextra, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:texlive-scheme-minimal, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:texlive-scheme-small, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:texlive-scheme-tetex, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:texlive-collection-langpolish, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:texlive-collection-langportuguese, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:texlive-collection-langspanish, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:texlive-collection-latex, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:texlive-collection-latexextra, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:texlive-collection-latexrecommended, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:texlive-collection-luatex, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:texlive-collection-mathscience, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:texlive-collection-metapost, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:texlive-collection-music, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:texlive-collection-pictures, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:texlive-collection-plaingeneric, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:texlive-collection-pstricks, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:texlive-collection-publishers, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:texlive-collection-xetex, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:texlive-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:texlive-extratools, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:texlive-filesystem, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:texlive-scheme-basic, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:texlive-scheme-context, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:texlive-scheme-full, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:texlive-scheme-gust, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:texlive-scheme-infraonly, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:texlive-scheme-medium

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 3/23/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/23/2020