SB2018083111 - Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature in SuSE libzypp
Published: August 31, 2018 Updated: August 8, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2018083111
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Local access
Highest impact
Code execution
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-7685)
The vulnerability allows a local authenticated user to execute arbitrary code.
The decoupled download and installation steps in libzypp before 17.5.0 could lead to a corrupted RPM being left in the cache, where a later call would not display the corrupted RPM warning and allow installation, a problem caused by malicious warnings only displayed during download.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.