SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : samba (SUSE-SU-2017:0858-1)
Medium Nessus Plugin ID 99086
Synopsis
The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
Description
This update for samba fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed :
- CVE-2017-2619: Symlink race permits opening files outside share directory (bsc#1027147). Bugfixes :
- Force usage of ncurses6-config thru NCURSES_CONFIG env var (bsc#1023847).
- Add missing ldb module directory (bsc#1012092).
- Don't package man pages for VFS modules that aren't built (bsc#993707).
- sync_req: make async_connect_send() 'reentrant';
(bso#12105); (bsc#1024416).
- Document 'winbind: ignore domains' parameter;
(bsc#1019416).
- Prevent core, make sure response->extra_data.data is always cleared out; (bsc#993692).
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP2-2017-479=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-RPI-12-SP2-2017-479=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2017-479=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-HA-12-SP2-2017-479=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP2-2017-479=1
To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.