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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RHSA-2015:2237-03 Low: Memory Crash Risk

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Calendar Grey November 19, 2015
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An essential patch for CentOS 8 focusing on critical vulnerabilities is now available. Discover the details and mitigation strategies.
Updated rest packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

The rest library was designed to make it easier to access web services that claim to be RESTful. A RESTful service should have URLs that represent remote objects, which methods can then be called on.
It was found that the OAuth implementation in librest, a helper library for RESTful services, incorrectly truncated the pointer returned by the rest_proxy_call_get_url call. An attacker could use this flaw to crash an application using the librest library. (CVE-2015-2675)
All users of rest are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. After installing the update, all applications using librest must be restarted for the update to take effect.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue memory corruption Red Hat Enterprise Linux update process rest library

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-2675 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: rest-0.7.92-3.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: rest-0.7.92-3.el7.i686.rpm rest-0.7.92-3.el7.x86_64.rpm rest-debuginfo-0.7.92-3.el7.i686.rpm rest-debuginfo-0.7.92-3.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7):
x86_64: rest-debuginfo-0.7.92-3.el7.i686.rpm rest-debuginfo-0.7.92-3.el7.x86_64.rpm rest-devel-0.7.92-3.el7.i686.rpm rest-devel-0.7.92-3.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7):
Source: rest-0.7.92-3.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: rest-0.7.92-3.el7.i686.rpm rest-0.7.92-3.el7.x86_64.rpm rest-debuginfo-0.7.92-3.el7.i686.rpm rest-debuginfo-0.7.92-3.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7):
x86_64: rest-debuginfo-0.7.92-3.el7.i686.rpm rest-debuginfo-0.7.92-3.el7.x86_64.rpm rest-devel-0.7.92-3.el7.i686.rpm rest-devel-0.7.92-3.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: rest-0.7.92-3.el7.src.rpm
aarch64: rest-0.7.92-3.el7.aarch64.rpm rest-debuginfo-0.7.92-3.el7.aarch64.rpm
ppc64: rest-0.7.92-3.el7.ppc.rpm rest-0.7.92-3.el7.ppc64.rpm rest-debuginfo-0.7.92-3.el7.ppc.rpm rest-debuginfo-0.7.92-3.el7.ppc64.rpm
ppc64le: rest-0.7.92-3.el7.ppc64le.rpm rest-debuginfo-0.7.92-3.el7.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: rest-0.7.92-3.el7.s390.rpm rest-0.7.92-3.el7.s390x.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2015:2237-03
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:2237.html
Issue date: 2015-11-19

Topic

Updated rest packages that fix one security issue are now available forRed Hat Enterprise Linux 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Low securityimpact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in theReferences section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue memory corruption Red Hat Enterprise Linux update process rest library

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - aarch64, ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - aarch64, ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1183982 - Memory corruption when using oauth because of implicit declaration of rest_proxy_call_get_url

1199049 - CVE-2015-2675 rest: memory corruption when using oauth because of implicit declaration of rest_proxy_call_get_url

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