Zach Malone discovered that Salt did not properly handle permissions to cache data. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. ( CVE-2015-8034 ) Dylan Frese discovered that Salt incorrectly allowed users to specify PAM service. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass authentication. ( CVE-2016-3176 )
Zach Malone discovered that Salt did not properly handle permissions to cache data. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. ( CVE-2015-8034 ) Dylan Frese discovered that Salt incorrectly allowed users to specify PAM service. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass authentication. ( CVE-2016-3176 )
Zach Malone discovered that Salt did not properly handle permissions to cache data. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. ( CVE-2015-8034 ) Dylan Frese discovered that Salt incorrectly allowed users to specify PAM service. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass authentication. ( CVE-2016-3176 )
Zach Malone discovered that Salt did not properly handle permissions to cache data. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. ( CVE-2015-8034 ) Dylan Frese discovered that Salt incorrectly allowed users to specify PAM service. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass authentication. ( CVE-2016-3176 )
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
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