[Secure-testing-team] Bug#879089: salt: CVE-2017-14695: Directory traversal in minion id validation

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: salt
Version: 2016.11.5+ds-1
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for salt.

CVE-2017-14695[0]:
Directory traversal in minion id validation

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-14695
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14695
[1] https://docs.saltstack.com/en/2016.11/topics/releases/2016.11.8.html

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore