File _patchinfo of Package patchinfo.4856
<patchinfo incident="4856">
<zypp_restart_needed/>
<rating>moderate</rating>
<packager>mcalmer</packager>
<category>security</category>
<summary>Security update for Salt</summary>
<description>
This update for salt provides version 2016.11.4 and brings various fixes and improvements:
- Adding a salt-minion watchdog for RHEL6 and SLES11 systems (sysV) to restart salt-minion in case of crashes during upgrade.
- Fix format error. (bsc#1043111)
- Fix ownership for whole master cache directory. (bsc#1035914)
- Disable 3rd party runtime packages to be explicitly recommended. (bsc#1040886)
- Fix insecure permissions in salt-ssh temporary files. (bsc#1035912, CVE-2017-8109)
- Disable custom rosters for Salt SSH via Salt API. (bsc#1011800, CVE-2017-5200)
- Orchestrate and batches don't return false failed information anymore.
- Speed-up cherrypy by removing sleep call.
- Fix os_family grains on SUSE. (bsc#1038855)
- Fix setting the language on SUSE systems. (bsc#1038855)
- Use SUSE specific salt-api.service. (bsc#1039370)
- Fix using hostname for minion ID as '127'.
- Fix core grains constants for timezone. (bsc#1032931)
- Minor fixes on new pkg.list_downloaded.
- Listing all type of advisory patches for Yum module.
- Prevents zero length error on Python 2.6.
- Fixes zypper test error after backporting.
- Raet protocol is no longer supported. (bsc#1020831)
- Fix moving SSH data to the new home. (bsc#1027722)
- Fix logrotating /var/log/salt/minion. (bsc#1030009)
- Fix result of master_tops extension is mutually overwritten. (bsc#1030073)
- Allows to set 'timeout' and 'gather_job_timeout' via kwargs.
- Allows to set custom timeouts for 'manage.up' and 'manage.status'.
- Use salt's ordereddict for comparison.
- Fix scripts for salt-proxy.
- Add openscap module.
- File.get_managed regression fix.
- Fix translate variable arguments if they contain hidden keywords. (bsc#1025896)
- Added unit test for dockerng.sls_build dryrun.
- Added dryrun to dockerng.sls_build.
- Update dockerng minimal version requirements.
- Fix format error in error parsing.
- Keep fix for migrating salt home directory. (bsc#1022562)
- Fix salt pkg.latest raises exception if package is not available. (bsc#1012999)
- Timezone should always be in UTC. (bsc#1017078)
- Fix timezone handling for rpm installtime. (bsc#1017078)
- Increasing timeouts for running integrations tests.
- Add buildargs option to dockerng.build module.
- Fix error when missing ssh-option parameter.
- Re-add yum notify plugin.
- All kwargs to dockerng.create to provide all features to sls_build as well.
- Datetime should be returned always in UTC.
- Fix possible crash while deserialising data on infinite recursion in scheduled state. (bsc#1036125)
- Documentation refresh to 2016.11.4
- For a detailed description, please refer to:
+ https://docs.saltstack.com/en/develop/topics/releases/2016.11.4.html
+ https://docs.saltstack.com/en/develop/topics/releases/2016.11.3.html
+ https://docs.saltstack.com/en/develop/topics/releases/2016.11.2.html
+ https://docs.saltstack.com/en/develop/topics/releases/2016.11.1.html
</description>
<issue id="323277" tracker="fate"/>
<issue id="2017-5200" tracker="cve"/>
<issue id="2017-8109" tracker="cve"/>
<issue id="1035912" tracker="bnc">CVE-2017-8109: salt: salt-ssh temporary files - insecure permissions</issue>
<issue id="1040584" tracker="bnc">[TRACKERBUG] FATE#323277: [ECO] Upgrade Salt to 2016.11.4</issue>
<issue id="1011800" tracker="bnc">CVE-2017-5200: salt: Salt-ssh via api let's run arbitrary commands as user salt</issue>
<issue id="1012999" tracker="bnc">salt pkg.latest raises exception if package is not availible</issue>
<issue id="1017078" tracker="bnc">"The system requires a reboot" does not disappear from web-UI despite the reboot</issue>
<issue id="1020831" tracker="bnc">salt-raet installation causes salt-master to crash</issue>
<issue id="1022562" tracker="bnc">Regression: salt-ssh minion boostrap doesn't work anymore.</issue>
<issue id="1025896" tracker="bnc">state.module run() does not translate varargs</issue>
<issue id="1027240" tracker="bnc">[ Regression ]Centos7 Minion remote command execution from gui or cli , minion not responding</issue>
<issue id="1027722" tracker="bnc">[Regression] Permission problem: salt-ssh minion boostrap doesn't work anymore.</issue>
<issue id="1030009" tracker="bnc">/var/log/salt/minion fails logrotate</issue>
<issue id="1030073" tracker="bnc">Result of master_tops extension is mutually overwritten</issue>
<issue id="1032931" tracker="bnc">[Salt] timezone.get_zone does not work on SLE11</issue>
<issue id="1036125" tracker="bnc">Jobs scheduled to run at a future time stay pending for Salt minions</issue>
<issue id="1038855" tracker="bnc">wrong use of os_family string for Suse in the locale module and others</issue>
<issue id="1039370" tracker="bnc">[Proxy] "Broken pipe" during bootstrap of salt minion</issue>
<issue id="1040886" tracker="bnc"/>
<issue id="1043111" tracker="bnc"/>
<issue id="1035914" tracker="bnc"/>
</patchinfo>