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OPENSUSE-SU-2021:0845-1

Vulnerability from csaf_opensuse - Published: 2021-06-06 22:06 - Updated: 2021-06-06 22:06
Summary
Security update for inn
Severity
Moderate
Notes
Title of the patch: Security update for inn
Description of the patch: This update for inn fixes the following issues: - CVE-2021-31998: change user to news before calling innupgrade, which could have allow local privilege escalation. [boo#1182321] This update was imported from the openSUSE:Leap:15.2:Update update project.
Patchnames: openSUSE-2021-845
Terms of use: CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).
Affected products
Product Identifier Version Remediation
Unresolved product id: SUSE Package Hub 15 SP2:inn-2.6.2-bp152.2.8.1.aarch64
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Package Hub 15 SP2:inn-2.6.2-bp152.2.8.1.ppc64le
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Package Hub 15 SP2:inn-2.6.2-bp152.2.8.1.s390x
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Package Hub 15 SP2:inn-2.6.2-bp152.2.8.1.x86_64
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Package Hub 15 SP2:inn-devel-2.6.2-bp152.2.8.1.aarch64
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Package Hub 15 SP2:inn-devel-2.6.2-bp152.2.8.1.ppc64le
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Package Hub 15 SP2:inn-devel-2.6.2-bp152.2.8.1.s390x
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Package Hub 15 SP2:inn-devel-2.6.2-bp152.2.8.1.x86_64
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Package Hub 15 SP2:mininews-2.6.2-bp152.2.8.1.aarch64
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Package Hub 15 SP2:mininews-2.6.2-bp152.2.8.1.ppc64le
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Package Hub 15 SP2:mininews-2.6.2-bp152.2.8.1.s390x
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Package Hub 15 SP2:mininews-2.6.2-bp152.2.8.1.x86_64
Vendor Fix
Threats
Impact important

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Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.


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