openSUSE Recommended Update: logrotate: Make it more robust ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement ID: openSUSE-RU-2012:0320-1 Rating: moderate References: #677335 Affected Products: openSUSE 11.4 ______________________________________________________________________________ An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available. Description: In order to make logrotate more robust against manipulated log directories logrotate was changed to * add a "su" config option which makes logrotate run partially as the specified user * run external helpers like log file compressors as the user configured with the "su" option * issue a warning for log directories writable by non-root users * not follow symlinks when rotating logs Patch Instructions: To install this openSUSE Recommended Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - openSUSE 11.4: zypper in -t patch logrotate-5744 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List: - openSUSE 11.4 (i586 x86_64): logrotate-3.7.9-6.9.1 References: http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-1550.html https://bugzilla.novell.com/677335