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From: Sam James <sam@g.o>
To: gentoo-announce@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-announce] [ GLSA 202011-13 ] Salt: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2020 04:04:51
Message-Id: 9FCC6EBE-7D89-49AC-8C69-A1727D76ACB8@gentoo.org
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2 Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 202011-13
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7 Severity: Normal
8 Title: Salt: Multiple vulnerabilities
9 Date: November 11, 2020
10 Bugs: #753266
11 ID: 202011-13
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15 Synopsis
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18 Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Salt, the worst of which
19 could result in the arbitrary execution of code.
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21 Background
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24 Salt is a remote execution and configuration manager.
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26 Affected packages
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30 Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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32 1 app-admin/salt < 3000.5 >= 3000.5
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34 Description
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37 Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Salt. Please review
38 the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
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40 Impact
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43 Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.
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45 Workaround
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48 There is no known workaround at this time.
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50 Resolution
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53 All Salt users should upgrade to the latest version:
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55 # emerge --sync
56 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-admin/salt-3000.5"
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58 References
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61 [ 1 ] CVE-2020-16846
62 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-16846
63 [ 2 ] CVE-2020-17490
64 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-17490
65 [ 3 ] CVE-2020-25592
66 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-25592
67 [ 4 ] Upstream advisory
68 https://www.saltstack.com/blog/on-november-3-2020-saltstack-publicly-disclosed-three-new-cves/
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70 Availability
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73 This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
74 the Gentoo Security Website:
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76 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-13
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78 Concerns?
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81 Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
82 confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost
83 importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
84 security@g.o or alternatively, you may file a bug at
85 https://bugs.gentoo.org.
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87 License
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90 Copyright 2020 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
91 belongs to its owner(s).
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93 The contents of this document are licensed under the
94 Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.
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96 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5

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