SUSE-SU-2022:0727-2

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    SUSE-SU-2022:0727-2

    Published: 19 Apr 2022Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026

    Summary: Security update for libeconf, shadow and util-linux

    Details: This security update for libeconf, shadow and util-linux fix the following issues: libeconf: - Add libeconf to SLE-Module-Basesystem_15-SP3 because needed by 'util-linux' and 'shadow' to fix autoyast handling of security related parameters (bsc#1192954, jsc#SLE-23384, jsc#SLE-23402) Issues fixed in libeconf: - Reading numbers with different bases (e.g. oktal) (bsc#1193632) (#157) - Fixed different issues while writing string values to file. - Writing comments to file too. - Fixed crash while merging values. - Added econftool cat option (#146) - new API call: econf_readDirsHistory (showing ALL locations) - new API call: econf_getPath (absolute path of the configuration file) - Man pages libeconf.3 and econftool.8. - Handling multiline strings. - Added libeconf_ext which returns more information like line_nr, comments, path of the configuration file,... - Econftool, an command line interface for handling configuration files. - Generating HTML API documentation with doxygen. - Improving error handling and semantic file check. - Joining entries with the same key to one single entry if env variable ECONF_JOIN_SAME_ENTRIES has been set. shadow: - The legacy code does not support /etc/login.defs.d used by YaST. Enable libeconf to read it (bsc#1192954, jsc#SLE-23384, jsc#SLE-23402) util-linux: - The legacy code does not support /etc/login.defs.d used by YaST. Enable libeconf to read it (bsc#1192954, jsc#SLE-23384, jsc#SLE-23402) - Allow use of larger values for start sector to prevent `blockdev --report` aborting (bsc#1188507) - Fixed `blockdev --report` using non-space characters as a field separator (bsc#1188507) - CVE-2021-3995: Fixed unauthorized unmount in util-linux's libmount. (bsc#1194976) - CVE-2021-3996: Fixed unauthorized unmount in util-linux's libmount. (bsc#1194976)

    References: https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2022/suse-su-20220727-2/, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1188507, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1192954, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1193632, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1194976, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3995, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3996

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: libeconf

    Purl: pkg:rpm/suse/libeconf&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.2

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0.4.4+git20220104.962774f-150300.3.6.2

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    User Interaction
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    Confidentiality
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    Integrity
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    Availability
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