A improper authentication using the HOST header in SUSE Linux SMT allows remote attackers to spoof a sibling server. Affected releases are SUSE Linux SMT: versions prior to 3.0.37.

SMT was updated to version 3.0.38.

Following security issue was fixed :

CVE-2018-12472: Harden hostname check during sibling check by forcing double reverse lookup (bsc#1104076)

Following non security issues were fixed: Add migration path check when registration sharing is enabled

Fix sibling sync errors (bsc#1111056) :

  - Synchronize all registered products

  - Handle duplicate registrations when syncing

  - Force resync to the sibling instance in `upgrade` and     `synchronize` API calls

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

This update for yast2-smt to 3.0.14 and smt to 3.0.37 fixes the following issues :

These security issues were fixed in SMT :

CVE-2018-12471: Xml External Entity processing in the RegistrationSharing modules allowed to read arbitrary file read (bsc#1103809).

CVE-2018-12470: SQL injection in RegistrationSharing module allows remote attackers to run arbitrary SQL statements (bsc#1103810).

CVE-2018-12472: Authentication bypass in sibling check facilitated further attacks on SMT (bsc#1104076).

SUSE would like to thank Jake Miller for reporting these issues to us.

These non-security issues were fixed in SMT: Fix cron jobs randomization (bsc#1097560)

Fix duplicate migration paths (bsc#1097824)

This non-security issue was fixed in yast2-smt: Remove cron job rescheduling (bsc#1097560)

Added missing translation marks (bsc#1037811)

Explicitly mention 'Organization Credentials' (fate#321759)

Rearrange the SMT set-up dialog (bsc#977043)

Make the Filter button default (bsc#1006984)

Prevent exiting the repo selection dialog via hitting Enter in the repository filter (bsc#1006984)

report when error occurs during repo mirroring (bsc#1006989)

Use TextEntry-based filter for repos (fate#319777)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

This update for smt to 2.0.34 fixes the following issues :

These security issues were fixed :

CVE-2018-12471: Xml External Entity processing in the RegistrationSharing modules allowed to read arbitrary file read (bsc#1103809)

CVE-2018-12470: SQL injection in RegistrationSharing module allows remote attackers to run arbitary SQL statements (bsc#1103810)

CVE-2018-12472: Authentication bypass in sibling check facilitated further attacks on SMT (bsc#1104076)

SUSE would like to thank Jake Miller for reporting these issues to us.

The update package also includes non-security fixes. See advisory for details.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
118459	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : smt (SUSE-SU-2018:3467-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
118295	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : smt, yast2-smt (SUSE-SU-2018:2898-2)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
117899	SUSE SLES11 Security Update : smt (SUSE-SU-2018:2899-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
117822	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : smt, yast2-smt (SUSE-SU-2018:2898-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical

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