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    <h1>Security update for salt</h1>

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            <th>Announcement ID:</th>
            <td>SUSE-SU-2023:3865-1</td>
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            <th>Rating:</th>
            <td>moderate</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <th>References:</th>
            <td>
                <ul>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1193948">#1193948</a>
                        </li>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1210994">#1210994</a>
                        </li>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1212794">#1212794</a>
                        </li>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1212844">#1212844</a>
                        </li>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1212855">#1212855</a>
                        </li>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1213257">#1213257</a>
                        </li>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1213441">#1213441</a>
                        </li>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1213630">#1213630</a>
                        </li>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1213960">#1213960</a>
                        </li>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1214796">#1214796</a>
                        </li>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1214797">#1214797</a>
                        </li>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1215489">#1215489</a>
                        </li>
                    
                    
                </ul>
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                <th>
                    Cross-References:
                </th>
                <td>
                    <ul>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-20897.html">CVE-2023-20897</a>
                        </li>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-20898.html">CVE-2023-20898</a>
                        </li>
                    
                    </ul>
                </td>
            </tr>
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                <th>CVSS scores:</th>
                <td>
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                            <li class="list-group-item">
                                <span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2023-20897</span>
                                <span class="cvss-source">
                                    (
                                    
                                        SUSE
                                    
                                    ):
                                </span>
                                <span class="cvss-score">5.3</span>
                                <span class="cvss-vector">CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L</span>
                            </li>
                        
                            <li class="list-group-item">
                                <span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2023-20897</span>
                                <span class="cvss-source">
                                    (
                                    
                                        NVD
                                    
                                    ):
                                </span>
                                <span class="cvss-score">5.3</span>
                                <span class="cvss-vector">CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L</span>
                            </li>
                        
                            <li class="list-group-item">
                                <span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2023-20898</span>
                                <span class="cvss-source">
                                    (
                                    
                                        SUSE
                                    
                                    ):
                                </span>
                                <span class="cvss-score">4.2</span>
                                <span class="cvss-vector">CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N</span>
                            </li>
                        
                            <li class="list-group-item">
                                <span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2023-20898</span>
                                <span class="cvss-source">
                                    (
                                    
                                        NVD
                                    
                                    ):
                                </span>
                                <span class="cvss-score">4.2</span>
                                <span class="cvss-vector">CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N</span>
                            </li>
                        
                    </ul>
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            <th>Affected Products:</th>
            <td>
                <ul class="list-group">
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2</li>
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2 LTSS 15-SP2</li>
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2</li>
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 LTSS 15-SP2</li>
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP2</li>
                    
                </ul>
            </td>
        </tr>
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    </table>

    <p>An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has 10 security fixes can now be installed.</p>

    


    
        <h2>Description:</h2>
    
    <p>This update for salt fixes the following issues:</p>
<p>Security issues fixed:</p>
<ul>
<li>CVE-2023-20897: Fixed DOS in minion return. (bsc#1214796, bsc#1213441)</li>
<li>CVE-2023-20898: Fixed Git Providers can read from the wrong environment because they get the same cache directory base
  name. (bsc#1214797, bsc#1193948)</li>
</ul>
<p>Bugs fixed:</p>
<ul>
<li>Create minion_id with reproducible mtime</li>
<li>Fix broken tests to make them running in the testsuite</li>
<li>Fix detection of Salt codename by "salt_version" execution module</li>
<li>Fix inconsistency in reported version by egg-info metadata (bsc#1215489)</li>
<li>Fix regression: multiple values for keyword argument &#x27;saltenv&#x27; (bsc#1212844)</li>
<li>Fix the regression of user.present state when group is unset (bsc#1212855)</li>
<li>Fix utf8 handling in &#x27;pass&#x27; renderer and make it more robust</li>
<li>Fix zypper repositories always being reconfigured</li>
<li>Make sure configured user is properly set by Salt (bsc#1210994)</li>
<li>Prevent possible exceptions on salt.utils.user.get_group_dict (bsc#1212794)</li>
<li>Revert usage of long running REQ channel to prevent possible missing responses on requests and duplicated responses
  (bsc#1213960, bsc#1213630, bsc#1213257)</li>
</ul>



    
        <h2>Special Instructions and Notes:</h2>
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    <h2>Patch Instructions:</h2>
    <p>
        To install this SUSE  update use the SUSE recommended
        installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".<br/>

        Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
    </p>
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            <li class="list-group-item">
                SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2 LTSS 15-SP2
                
                    
                        <br/>
                        <code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP2-LTSS-2023-3865=1</code>
                    
                    
                
            </li>
        
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                SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 LTSS 15-SP2
                
                    
                        <br/>
                        <code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-SP2-LTSS-2023-3865=1</code>
                    
                    
                
            </li>
        
            <li class="list-group-item">
                SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP2
                
                    
                        <br/>
                        <code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-SP2-2023-3865=1</code>
                    
                    
                
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    <h2>Package List:</h2>
    <ul>
        
            
                <li>
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2 LTSS 15-SP2 (aarch64 x86_64)
                    <ul>
                        
                            <li>salt-master-3006.0-150200.108.1</li>
                        
                            <li>python3-salt-3006.0-150200.108.1</li>
                        
                            <li>salt-api-3006.0-150200.108.1</li>
                        
                            <li>salt-doc-3006.0-150200.108.1</li>
                        
                            <li>salt-minion-3006.0-150200.108.1</li>
                        
                            <li>salt-ssh-3006.0-150200.108.1</li>
                        
                            <li>salt-proxy-3006.0-150200.108.1</li>
                        
                            <li>salt-3006.0-150200.108.1</li>
                        
                            <li>salt-syndic-3006.0-150200.108.1</li>
                        
                            <li>salt-standalone-formulas-configuration-3006.0-150200.108.1</li>
                        
                            <li>salt-cloud-3006.0-150200.108.1</li>
                        
                    </ul>
                </li>
            
                <li>
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2 LTSS 15-SP2 (noarch)
                    <ul>
                        
                            <li>salt-bash-completion-3006.0-150200.108.1</li>
                        
                            <li>salt-zsh-completion-3006.0-150200.108.1</li>
                        
                            <li>salt-fish-completion-3006.0-150200.108.1</li>
                        
                    </ul>
                </li>
            
        
            
                <li>
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 LTSS 15-SP2 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
                    <ul>
                        
                            <li>salt-master-3006.0-150200.108.1</li>
                        
                            <li>python3-salt-3006.0-150200.108.1</li>
                        
                            <li>salt-api-3006.0-150200.108.1</li>
                        
                            <li>salt-doc-3006.0-150200.108.1</li>
                        
                            <li>salt-minion-3006.0-150200.108.1</li>
                        
                            <li>salt-ssh-3006.0-150200.108.1</li>
                        
                            <li>salt-transactional-update-3006.0-150200.108.1</li>
                        
                            <li>salt-proxy-3006.0-150200.108.1</li>
                        
                            <li>salt-3006.0-150200.108.1</li>
                        
                            <li>salt-syndic-3006.0-150200.108.1</li>
                        
                            <li>salt-standalone-formulas-configuration-3006.0-150200.108.1</li>
                        
                            <li>salt-cloud-3006.0-150200.108.1</li>
                        
                    </ul>
                </li>
            
                <li>
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 LTSS 15-SP2 (noarch)
                    <ul>
                        
                            <li>salt-bash-completion-3006.0-150200.108.1</li>
                        
                            <li>salt-zsh-completion-3006.0-150200.108.1</li>
                        
                            <li>salt-fish-completion-3006.0-150200.108.1</li>
                        
                    </ul>
                </li>
            
        
            
                <li>
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP2 (ppc64le x86_64)
                    <ul>
                        
                            <li>salt-master-3006.0-150200.108.1</li>
                        
                            <li>python3-salt-3006.0-150200.108.1</li>
                        
                            <li>salt-api-3006.0-150200.108.1</li>
                        
                            <li>salt-doc-3006.0-150200.108.1</li>
                        
                            <li>salt-minion-3006.0-150200.108.1</li>
                        
                            <li>salt-ssh-3006.0-150200.108.1</li>
                        
                            <li>salt-transactional-update-3006.0-150200.108.1</li>
                        
                            <li>salt-proxy-3006.0-150200.108.1</li>
                        
                            <li>salt-3006.0-150200.108.1</li>
                        
                            <li>salt-syndic-3006.0-150200.108.1</li>
                        
                            <li>salt-standalone-formulas-configuration-3006.0-150200.108.1</li>
                        
                            <li>salt-cloud-3006.0-150200.108.1</li>
                        
                    </ul>
                </li>
            
                <li>
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP2 (noarch)
                    <ul>
                        
                            <li>salt-bash-completion-3006.0-150200.108.1</li>
                        
                            <li>salt-zsh-completion-3006.0-150200.108.1</li>
                        
                            <li>salt-fish-completion-3006.0-150200.108.1</li>
                        
                    </ul>
                </li>
            
        
    </ul>

    
        <h2>References:</h2>
        <ul>
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-20897.html">https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-20897.html</a>
                    </li>
                
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-20898.html">https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-20898.html</a>
                    </li>
                
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1193948">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1193948</a>
                    </li>
                
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1210994">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1210994</a>
                    </li>
                
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1212794">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1212794</a>
                    </li>
                
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1212844">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1212844</a>
                    </li>
                
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1212855">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1212855</a>
                    </li>
                
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1213257">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1213257</a>
                    </li>
                
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1213441">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1213441</a>
                    </li>
                
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1213630">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1213630</a>
                    </li>
                
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1213960">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1213960</a>
                    </li>
                
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1214796">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1214796</a>
                    </li>
                
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1214797">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1214797</a>
                    </li>
                
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1215489">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1215489</a>
                    </li>
                
            
        </ul>
    
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