An update that solves one vulnerability and has 8 fixes is
now available.
Description:
This update for systemd fixes the following issues:
Security vulnerability fixed:
- CVE-2019-6454: Fixed a crash of PID1 by sending specially crafted D-BUS
message on the system bus by an unprivileged user (bsc#1125352)
Other bug fixes and changes:
- journal-remote: set a limit on the number of fields in a message
- journal-remote: verify entry length from header
- journald: set a limit on the number of fields (1k)
- journald: do not store the iovec entry for process commandline on stack
- core: include Found state in device dumps
- device: fix serialization and deserialization of DeviceFound
- fix path in btrfs rule (#6844)
- assemble multidevice btrfs volumes without external tools (#6607)
(bsc#1117025)
- Update systemd-system.conf.xml (bsc#1122000)
- units: inform user that the default target is started after exiting from
rescue or emergency mode
- manager: don’t skip sigchld handler for main and control pid for
services (#3738)
- core: Add helper functions unit_{main, control}_pid
- manager: Fixing a debug printf formatting mistake (#3640)
- manager: Only invoke a single sigchld per unit within a cleanup cycle
(bsc#1117382)
- core: update invoke_sigchld_event() to handle NULL ->sigchld_event()
- sd-event: expose the event loop iteration counter via
sd_event_get_iteration() (#3631)
- unit: rework a bit how we keep the service fdstore from being destroyed
during service restart (bsc#1122344)
- core: when restarting services, don’t close fds
- cryptsetup: Add dependency on loopback setup to generated units
- journal-gateway: use localStorage[“cursor”] only when it has valid value
- journal-gateway: explicitly declare local variables
- analyze: actually select longest activated-time of services
- sd-bus: fix implicit downcast of bitfield reported by LGTM
- core: free lines after reading them (bsc#1123892)
- pam_systemd: reword message about not creating a session (bsc#1111498)
- pam_systemd: suppress LOG_DEBUG log messages if debugging is off
(bsc#1111498)
- main: improve RLIMIT_NOFILE handling (#5795) (bsc#1120658)
- sd-bus: if we receive an invalid dbus message, ignore and proceeed
- automount: don’t pass non-blocking pipe to kernel.
- units: make sure initrd-cleanup.service terminates before switching to
rootfs (bsc#1123333)
- units: add Wants=initrd-cleanup.service to initrd-switch-root.target
(#4345) (bsc#1123333)
This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP2:Update update project.
Patch Instructions:
To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods
like YaST online_update or “zypper patch”.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: