SUSE-RU-2024:0791-1: Recommended update for timezone
This update for timezone fixes the following issues: Update to version 2024a Kazakhstan unifies on UTC+5 Palestine springs forward a week later than previously predicted in 2024 and 2025 Asia/HoChiMinh's 1955-07-01 transition occurred at 01:00 not 00:00 From 1947 through 1949, Toronto's transitions occurred at 02:00 not 00:00 In 1911 Miquelon adopted standard time on June 15, not May 15 The FROM and TO columns of Rule lines can no longer be "minimum" localtime no longer mishandle some timestamps strftime %s now uses tmgmtoff if available Ittoqqortoormiit, Greenland changes time zones on 2024-03-31 Vostok, Antarctica changed time zones on 2023-12-18 Casey, Antarctica changed time zones five times since 2020 Code and data fixes for Palestine timestamps starting in 2072 A new data file zonenow.tab for timestamps starting now Much of Greenland changed its standard time from -03 to -02 on 2023-03-25 localtime.c no longer mishandles TZif files that contain a single transition into a DST regime tzselect no longer creates temporary files tzselect no longer mishandles the following: Spaces and most other special characters in BUGEMAIL, PACKAGE, TZDIR, and VERSION. TZ strings when using mawk 1.4.3, which mishandles regular expressions of the form /X{2,}/ ISO 6709 coordinates when using an awk that lacks the GNU extension of newlines in -v option-arguments Non UTF-8 locales when using an iconv command that lacks the GNU //TRANSLIT extension zic no longer mishandles data for Palestine after the year 2075
Affected Software
Remediation
Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.
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suse/timezoneto a version that resolves this vulnerability.Fixed in 2024a-74.79.1 - Upgrade
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suse/timezone-debugsourceto a version that resolves this vulnerability.Fixed in 2024a-74.79.1 - Upgrade
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suse/timezone-debuginfoto a version that resolves this vulnerability.Fixed in 2024a-74.79.1 - Upgrade
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suse/timezone-javato a version that resolves this vulnerability.Fixed in 2024a-74.79.1 - Upgrade
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timezoneto a version that resolves this vulnerability.Fixed in 2024aPatch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2024-791=1
Event History
Frequently Asked Questions
Which systems are covered by this update?
The update applies to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 and SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5. Covered architectures include aarch64 and x86_64 for HPC, and aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, and x86_64 for Server, along with noarch packages.
Which locations or dates are most likely to require validation after applying the update?
Validate time handling for Kazakhstan, Palestine, Greenland, Ittoqqortoormiit, Vostok, Casey, Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh, Toronto, and Miquelon. The update includes current and historical timezone corrections, including Palestine changes in 2024 and 2025 and timezone changes in Greenland, Antarctica, and Kazakhstan.
How can an administrator tell whether this update is relevant to an installed system?
The advisory updates the timezone package to version 2024a and also lists timezone-java, timezone-debuginfo, and timezone-debugsource. It does not provide the specific installed or fixed package release numbers needed to determine update status from package inventory alone.