SUSE-SU-2024:0509-1: important: Security update for salt

15 Feb 2024

      # Security update for salt

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2024:0509-1  
Rating: important  
References:

  * bsc#1193948
  * bsc#1211649
  * bsc#1215963
  * bsc#1216284
  * bsc#1219430
  * bsc#1219431
  * jsc#MSQA-719

Cross-References:

  * CVE-2024-22231
  * CVE-2024-22232

CVSS scores:

  * CVE-2024-22231 ( SUSE ):  5.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
  * CVE-2024-22232 ( SUSE ):  7.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected Products:

  * openSUSE Leap 15.4
  * openSUSE Leap Micro 5.3
  * openSUSE Leap Micro 5.4
  * SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP4 LTSS 15-SP4
  * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4
  * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP4
  * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP4
  * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3
  * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4
  * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.3
  * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.4
  * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4
  * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 LTSS 15-SP4
  * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4
  * SUSE Manager Proxy 4.3
  * SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.3
  * SUSE Manager Server 4.3

An update that solves two vulnerabilities, contains one feature and has four
security fixes can now be installed.

## Description:

This update for salt fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed:

  * CVE-2024-22231: Prevent directory traversal when creating syndic cache
    directory on the master (bsc#1219430)
  * CVE-2024-22232: Prevent directory traversal attacks in the master's
    serve_file method (bsc#1219431)

Bugs fixed:

  * Ensure that pillar refresh loads beacons from pillar without restart
  * Fix the aptpkg.py unit test failure
  * Prefer unittest.mock to python-mock in test suite
  * Enable "KeepAlive" probes for Salt SSH executions (bsc#1211649)
  * Revert changes to set Salt configured user early in the stack (bsc#1216284)
  * Align behavior of some modules when using salt-call via symlink
    (bsc#1215963)
  * Fix gitfs " **env** " and improve cache cleaning (bsc#1193948)
  * Remove python-boto dependency for the python3-salt-testsuite package for
    Tumbleweed

## Special Instructions and Notes:

## Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like
YaST online_update or "zypper patch".  
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 LTSS 15-SP4  
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-SP4-LTSS-2024-509=1

  * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4  
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-SP4-2024-509=1

  * SUSE Manager Proxy 4.3  
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SUSE-Manager-Proxy-4.3-2024-509=1

  * SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.3  
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SUSE-Manager-Retail-Branch-
Server-4.3-2024-509=1

  * SUSE Manager Server 4.3  
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SUSE-Manager-Server-4.3-2024-509=1

  * openSUSE Leap 15.4  
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-2024-509=1

  * openSUSE Leap Micro 5.3  
    zypper in -t patch openSUSE-Leap-Micro-5.3-2024-509=1

  * openSUSE Leap Micro 5.4  
    zypper in -t patch openSUSE-Leap-Micro-5.4-2024-509=1

  * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.3  
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.3-2024-509=1

  * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3  
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.3-2024-509=1

  * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.4  
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.4-2024-509=1

  * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4  
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.4-2024-509=1

  * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP4  
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP4-ESPOS-2024-509=1

  * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP4  
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP4-LTSS-2024-509=1

  * SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP4 LTSS 15-SP4  
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLED-15-SP4-LTSS-2024-509=1

## Package List:

  * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 LTSS 15-SP4 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x
    x86_64)
    * salt-syndic-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-minion-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * python3-salt-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-proxy-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-standalone-formulas-configuration-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-doc-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-transactional-update-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-api-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-ssh-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-master-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-cloud-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
  * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 LTSS 15-SP4 (noarch)
    * salt-fish-completion-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-zsh-completion-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-bash-completion-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
  * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4 (ppc64le x86_64)
    * salt-syndic-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-minion-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * python3-salt-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-proxy-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-standalone-formulas-configuration-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-doc-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-api-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-ssh-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-master-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-cloud-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
  * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4 (noarch)
    * salt-fish-completion-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-zsh-completion-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-bash-completion-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
  * SUSE Manager Proxy 4.3 (x86_64)
    * salt-syndic-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-minion-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * python3-salt-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-proxy-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-standalone-formulas-configuration-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-doc-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-api-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-ssh-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-master-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-cloud-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
  * SUSE Manager Proxy 4.3 (noarch)
    * salt-fish-completion-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-zsh-completion-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-bash-completion-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
  * SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.3 (x86_64)
    * salt-syndic-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-minion-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * python3-salt-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-proxy-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-standalone-formulas-configuration-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-doc-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-api-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-ssh-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-master-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-cloud-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
  * SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.3 (noarch)
    * salt-fish-completion-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-zsh-completion-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-bash-completion-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
  * SUSE Manager Server 4.3 (ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    * salt-syndic-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-minion-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * python3-salt-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-proxy-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-standalone-formulas-configuration-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-doc-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-api-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-ssh-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-master-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-cloud-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
  * SUSE Manager Server 4.3 (noarch)
    * salt-fish-completion-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-zsh-completion-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-bash-completion-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
  * openSUSE Leap 15.4 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)
    * salt-syndic-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-minion-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * python3-salt-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * python3-salt-testsuite-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-proxy-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-standalone-formulas-configuration-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-doc-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-transactional-update-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-api-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-ssh-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-master-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-cloud-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
  * openSUSE Leap 15.4 (noarch)
    * salt-fish-completion-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-zsh-completion-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-bash-completion-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
  * openSUSE Leap Micro 5.3 (aarch64 x86_64)
    * python3-salt-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-transactional-update-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-minion-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
  * openSUSE Leap Micro 5.4 (aarch64 s390x x86_64)
    * python3-salt-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-transactional-update-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-minion-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
  * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.3 (aarch64 s390x x86_64)
    * python3-salt-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-transactional-update-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-minion-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
  * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3 (aarch64 s390x x86_64)
    * python3-salt-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-transactional-update-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-minion-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
  * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.4 (aarch64 s390x x86_64)
    * python3-salt-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-transactional-update-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-minion-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
  * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4 (aarch64 s390x x86_64)
    * python3-salt-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-transactional-update-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-minion-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
  * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP4 (aarch64
    x86_64)
    * salt-syndic-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-minion-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * python3-salt-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-proxy-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-standalone-formulas-configuration-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-doc-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-api-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-ssh-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-master-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-cloud-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
  * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP4 (noarch)
    * salt-fish-completion-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-zsh-completion-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-bash-completion-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
  * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP4 (aarch64
    x86_64)
    * salt-syndic-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-minion-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * python3-salt-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-proxy-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-standalone-formulas-configuration-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-doc-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-api-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-ssh-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-master-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-cloud-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
  * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP4 (noarch)
    * salt-fish-completion-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-zsh-completion-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-bash-completion-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
  * SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP4 LTSS 15-SP4 (x86_64)
    * python3-salt-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-doc-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-minion-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
  * SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP4 LTSS 15-SP4 (noarch)
    * salt-zsh-completion-3006.0-150400.8.54.1
    * salt-bash-completion-3006.0-150400.8.54.1

## References:

  * https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-22231.html
  * https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-22232.html
  * https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1193948
  * https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1211649
  * https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1215963
  * https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1216284
  * https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1219430
  * https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1219431
  * https://jira.suse.com/browse/MSQA-719

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