SUSE-SU-2017:3381-1

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SUSE-SU-2017:3381-1

Summary: Security update for Salt

Details: This update for salt fixes one security issue and bugs. The following security issues have been fixed: - CVE-2017-14695: A directory traversal vulnerability in minion id validation allowed remote minions with incorrect credentials to authenticate to a master via a crafted minion ID. (bsc#1062462) - CVE-2017-14696: It was possible to force a remote Denial of Service with a specially crafted authentication request. (bsc#1062464) Additionally, the following non-security issues have been fixed: - Removed deprecation warning for beacon configuration using dictionaries. (bsc#1041993) - Fixed beacons failure when pillar-based suppressing config-based. (bsc#1060230) - Fixed minion resource exhaustion when many functions are being executed in parallel. (bsc#1059758) - Remove 'TasksTask' attribute from salt-master.service in older versions of systemd. (bsc#985112) - Fix for delete_deployment in Kubernetes module. (bsc#1059291) - Catching error when PIDfile cannot be deleted. (bsc#1050003) - Use $HOME to get the user home directory instead using '~' char. (bsc#1042749)

References: https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2017/suse-su-20173381-1/, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1041993, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1042749, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1050003, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1059291, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1059758, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1060230, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1062462, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1062464, https://bugzilla.suse.com/985112, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-14695, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-14696