vulnerability

SUSE: CVE-2018-19639: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Feb 25, 2019
Added
Mar 6, 2019
Modified
Dec 19, 2019

Description

If supportutils before version 3.1-5.7.1 is run with -v to perform rpm verification and the attacker manages to manipulate the rpm listing (e.g. with CVE-2018-19638) he can execute arbitrary commands as root.

Solutions

suse-upgrade-hostinfosuse-upgrade-supportutils
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