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SUSE-SU-2019:14237-1

Vulnerability from csaf_suse - Published: 2019-12-05 10:44 - Updated: 2019-12-05 10:44
Summary
Security update for permissions
Severity
Moderate
Notes
Title of the patch: Security update for permissions
Description of the patch: This update for permissions fixes the following issues: - CVE-2019-3690: Fixed a privilege escalation through untrusted symlinks (bsc#1150734).
Patchnames: sleposp3-permissions-14237,slessp4-permissions-14237
Terms of use: CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).
Affected products
Product Identifier Version Remediation
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11 SP3:permissions-2013.1.7-0.6.5.1.i586
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS:permissions-2013.1.7-0.6.5.1.i586
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS:permissions-2013.1.7-0.6.5.1.ppc64
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS:permissions-2013.1.7-0.6.5.1.s390x
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS:permissions-2013.1.7-0.6.5.1.x86_64
Vendor Fix
Threats
Impact moderate

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