This update for salt fixes one security issue and bugs.
The following security issues have been fixed:
CVE-2017-14695: A directory traversal vulnerability in minion id validation allowed remote minions with incorrect
credentials to authenticate to a master via a crafted minion ID. (bsc#1062462)
CVE-2017-14696: It was possible to force a remote Denial of Service with a specially crafted authentication
request. (bsc#1062464)
Additionally, the following non-security issues have been fixed:
Removed deprecation warning for beacon configuration using dictionaries. (bsc#1041993)
Fixed beacons failure when pillar-based suppressing config-based. (bsc#1060230)
Fixed minion resource exhaustion when many functions are being executed in parallel. (bsc#1059758)
Remove 'TasksTask' attribute from salt-master.service in older versions of systemd. (bsc#985112)
Fix for delete_deployment in Kubernetes module. (bsc#1059291)
Catching error when PIDfile cannot be deleted. (bsc#1050003)
Use $HOME to get the user home directory instead using '~' char. (bsc#1042749)