[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2012:0552-1: important: Security update for cobbler

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SUSE Security Update: Security update for cobbler

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2012:0552-1

Rating: important

References: #757062

Cross-References: CVE-2011-4953

Affected Products:

SUSE Manager Client Tools for SLE 11 SP1

SUSE Manager 1.2 for SLE 11 SP1

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An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

 

Description:

 

 

This update of cobbler fixes a privilege escalation flaw:

 

* CVE-2011-4953: privilege escalation via unsafe call

to yaml.load instead of yaml.safe_load

 

Security Issue reference:

 

* CVE-2011-4953

 

 

 

Patch Instructions:

 

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

 

- SUSE Manager Client Tools for SLE 11 SP1:

 

zypper in -t patch slesctsp1-cobbler-6153

 

- SUSE Manager 1.2 for SLE 11 SP1:

 

zypper in -t patch sleman12sp1-cobbler-6153

 

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

 

 

Package List:

 

- SUSE Manager Client Tools for SLE 11 SP1 (x86_64):

 

koan-2.0.10-0.34.1

 

- SUSE Manager 1.2 for SLE 11 SP1 (x86_64):

 

cobbler-2.0.10-0.34.1

 

 

References:

 

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-4953.html

https://bugzilla.novell.com/757062

http://download.novell.com/patch/finder/?keywords=af48b142adfc83f42d21f36df6ac17a9

 

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