SUSE-SU-2020:0762-1

Source
https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2020/suse-su-20200762-1/
Import Source
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/osv/SUSE-SU-2020:0762-1.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/SUSE-SU-2020:0762-1
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Published
2020-03-24T14:52:45Z
Modified
2025-05-02T04:09:05.892226Z
Summary
Security Beta update for Salt
Details

This update fixes the following issues:

salt: - Requiring python3-distro only for openSUSE/SLE >= 15 - Use full option name instead of undocumented abbreviation for zypper - Python-distro is only needed for > Python 3.7. Removing it for Python 2 - Fixed a local privilege escalation to root (bsc#1157465) (CVE-2019-18897) - Fix unit tests failures in testbatchasync tests - Batch Async: Handle exceptions, properly unregister and close instances after running async batching to avoid CPU starvation of the MWorkers (bsc#1162327) - RHEL/CentOS 8 uses platform-python instead of python3 - Enable build for Python 3.8 - Update to Salt version 2019.2.3 (bsc#1163981) (bsc#1162504) - Replacing pycrypto with M2Crypto (bsc#1165425)

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