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Red Hat 7: RHSA-2016-2607-02 Moderate: Code Exec From powerpc-utils-python

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Calendar Grey November 3, 2016
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A recent patch rectifies a significant vulnerability in powerpc-utils-python for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. More information provided.
An update for powerpc-utils-python is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

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

Summary

The powerpc-utils-python packages provide Python-based utilities for maintaining and servicing PowerPC systems.
Security Fix(es):
* It was found that the amsvis command of the powerpc-utils-python package did not verify unpickled data before processing it. This could allow an attacker who can connect to an amsvis server process (or cause an amsvis client process to connect to them) to execute arbitrary code as the user running the amsvis process. (CVE-2014-8165)
This issue was discovered by Dhiru Kholia of Red Hat Product Security.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update Red Hat code execution arbitrary code powerpc-utils-python

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8165 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/7.3_Release_Notes/index.html

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: powerpc-utils-python-1.2.1-9.el7.src.rpm
noarch: powerpc-utils-python-1.2.1-9.el7.noarch.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key


Advisory ID: RHSA-2016:2607-02
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:2607.html
Issue date: 2016-11-03

Topic

An update for powerpc-utils-python is now available for Red Hat EnterpriseLinux 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update Red Hat code execution arbitrary code powerpc-utils-python

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - noarch

Bugs Fixed

1073139 - CVE-2014-8165 powerpc-utils-python: arbitrary code execution due to unpickling untrusted input

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