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SUSE: CVE-2018-7685: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2018-7685: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/30/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
08/31/2018
Modified
10/22/2021

Description

The decoupled download and installation steps in libzypp before 17.5.0 could lead to a corrupted RPM being left in the cache, where a later call would not display the corrupted RPM warning and allow installation, a problem caused by malicious warnings only displayed during download.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-libsolv-demo
  • suse-upgrade-libsolv-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libsolv-tools
  • suse-upgrade-libzypp
  • suse-upgrade-libzypp-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libzypp-devel-doc
  • suse-upgrade-perl-solv
  • suse-upgrade-python-solv
  • suse-upgrade-python3-solv
  • suse-upgrade-ruby-solv
  • suse-upgrade-zypper
  • suse-upgrade-zypper-aptitude
  • suse-upgrade-zypper-log

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