openSUSE Security Update: Security update for atheme ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2016:1312-1 Rating: moderate References: #978170 Cross-References: CVE-2014-9773 CVE-2016-4478 Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.1 openSUSE 13.2 ______________________________________________________________________________ An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available. Description: This update for atheme fixes the following issues: - CVE-2016-4478: Under certain circumstances, a remote attacker could cause denial of service due to a buffer overflow in the XMLRPC response encoding code (boo#978170) - CVE-2014-9773: Remote attacker could change Atheme's behavior by registering/dropping certain accounts/nicks (boo#978170) The version update to 7.2.6 also contains a number of upstream fixes. Patch Instructions: To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - openSUSE Leap 42.1: zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2016-590=1 - openSUSE 13.2: zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2016-590=1 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List: - openSUSE Leap 42.1 (i586 x86_64): atheme-7.2.6-5.1 atheme-debuginfo-7.2.6-5.1 atheme-debugsource-7.2.6-5.1 atheme-devel-7.2.6-5.1 libathemecore1-7.2.6-5.1 libathemecore1-debuginfo-7.2.6-5.1 - openSUSE 13.2 (i586 x86_64): atheme-7.2.6-2.3.1 atheme-debuginfo-7.2.6-2.3.1 atheme-debugsource-7.2.6-2.3.1 atheme-devel-7.2.6-2.3.1 libathemecore1-7.2.6-2.3.1 libathemecore1-debuginfo-7.2.6-2.3.1 References: https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-9773.html https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4478.html https://bugzilla.suse.com/978170