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SUSE: CVE-2021-3421: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
05/19/2021
Created
08/16/2021
Added
08/14/2021
Modified
11/11/2022

Description

A flaw was found in the RPM package in the read functionality. This flaw allows an attacker who can convince a victim to install a seemingly verifiable package or compromise an RPM repository, to cause RPM database corruption. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data integrity. This flaw affects RPM versions before 4.17.0-alpha.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-hawkey-man
  • suse-upgrade-libdnf-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libdnf-repo-config-zypp
  • suse-upgrade-libdnf2
  • suse-upgrade-librepo-devel
  • suse-upgrade-librepo0
  • suse-upgrade-python2-rpm
  • suse-upgrade-python3-hawkey
  • suse-upgrade-python3-libdnf
  • suse-upgrade-python3-librepo
  • suse-upgrade-python3-rpm
  • suse-upgrade-rpm
  • suse-upgrade-rpm-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-rpm-build
  • suse-upgrade-rpm-devel
  • suse-upgrade-rpm-ndb
  • suse-upgrade-rpm-ndb-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-rpm-python

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