openSUSE Security Update: sendmail: Close file descriptors before executing programs ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2014:0804-1 Rating: moderate References: #881284 Cross-References: CVE-2014-3956 Affected Products: openSUSE 13.1 openSUSE 12.3 ______________________________________________________________________________ An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available. Description: sendmail was updated to properly close file descriptors before executing programs. These security issues were fixed: - Not properly closing file descriptors before executing programs (CVE-2014-3956). Patch Instructions: To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - openSUSE 13.1: zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2014-425 - openSUSE 12.3: zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2014-425 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List: - openSUSE 13.1 (i586 x86_64): rmail-8.14.7-92.5.2 rmail-debuginfo-8.14.7-92.5.2 sendmail-8.14.7-92.5.2 sendmail-debuginfo-8.14.7-92.5.2 sendmail-debugsource-8.14.7-92.5.2 sendmail-devel-8.14.7-92.5.2 uucp-1.07-92.5.2 uucp-debuginfo-1.07-92.5.2 uucp-debugsource-1.07-92.5.2 - openSUSE 12.3 (i586 x86_64): rmail-8.14.3-85.4.2 rmail-debuginfo-8.14.3-85.4.2 sendmail-8.14.5-85.4.2 sendmail-debuginfo-8.14.5-85.4.2 sendmail-debugsource-8.14.5-85.4.2 sendmail-devel-8.14.5-85.4.2 uucp-1.07-85.4.1 uucp-debuginfo-1.07-85.4.1 uucp-debugsource-1.07-85.4.1 References: http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-3956.html https://bugzilla.novell.com/881284