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SUSE: CVE-2018-15869: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2018-15869: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
08/24/2018
Created
12/03/2019
Added
11/29/2019
Modified
01/30/2020

Description

An Amazon Web Services (AWS) developer who does not specify the --owners flag when describing images via AWS CLI, and therefore not properly validating source software per AWS recommended security best practices, may unintentionally load an undesired and potentially malicious Amazon Machine Image (AMI) from the uncurated public community AMI catalog.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-aws-cli
  • suse-upgrade-python2-boto3
  • suse-upgrade-python2-botocore
  • suse-upgrade-python2-s3transfer
  • suse-upgrade-python3-boto3
  • suse-upgrade-python3-botocore
  • suse-upgrade-python3-s3transfer

References

  • SUSE-SU-2020:0251-1
  • CVE-2018-15869

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