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SUSE: 2022:4004-2 Urgent: Dangers from Python320 Flaw and Elevation

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Calendar Grey November 15, 2022
Dist Suse Esm H88
Urgent security patch for SUSE platforms tackling local privilege elevation and decoding vulnerabilities in Python 3.10.
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available

Summary

This update for python310 fixes the following issues: Security fixes: - CVE-2022-42919: Fixed local privilege escalation via the multiprocessing forkserver start method (bsc#1204886). - CVE-2022-45061: Fixed a quadratic IDNA decoding time (bsc#1205244). Other fixes: - allow building of documentation with the latest Sphinx 5.3.0 (gh#python/cpython#98366). - Update to 3.10.8: - Fix multiplying a list by an integer (list *= int): detect the integer overflow when the new allocated length is close to the maximum size. - Fix a shell code injection vulnerability in the get-remote-certificate.py example script. The script no longer uses a shell to run openssl commands. (originally filed as CVE-2022-37460, later withdrawn) - Fix command line parsing: reject -X int_max_str_digits option with no

References

#1204886 #1205244

Cross- CVE-2022-42919 CVE-2022-45061

CVSS scores:

CVE-2022-42919 (NVD) : 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE-2022-42919 (SUSE): 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE-2022-45061 (NVD) : 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVE-2022-45061 (SUSE): 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Python3 15-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15-SP4

SUSE Manager Proxy 4.3

SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.3

SUSE Manager Server 4.3

openSUSE Leap 15.4

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2022:4004-1
Rating: important

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