openSUSE Recommended Update: Recommended update for patch ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement ID: openSUSE-RU-2015:1010-1 Rating: moderate References: #918058 Affected Products: openSUSE 13.2 openSUSE 13.1 ______________________________________________________________________________ An update that has one recommended fix can now be installed. Description: GNU patch was updated to 2.7.5 to fix a functional regression introduced by the previous security fix. The following bugs were fixed: * The security fix would forbid legitimate use cases of relative symbolic links. [boo#918058] The following changes are included: * Do not change permissions if there isn't an explicit mode change. * Fix indentation heuristic for context diffs. Patch Instructions: To install this openSUSE Recommended Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - openSUSE 13.2: zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2015-405=1 - openSUSE 13.1: zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2015-405=1 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List: - openSUSE 13.2 (i586 x86_64): patch-2.7.5-7.7.1 patch-debuginfo-2.7.5-7.7.1 patch-debugsource-2.7.5-7.7.1 - openSUSE 13.1 (i586 x86_64): patch-2.7.5-4.7.1 patch-debuginfo-2.7.5-4.7.1 patch-debugsource-2.7.5-4.7.1 References: https://bugzilla.suse.com/918058