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Red Hat 6: RHSA-2017:1268-01 Important: Libtirpc Memory Leak

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Calendar Grey May 23, 2017
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Red Hat has released an update for libtirpc, categorizing this security concern as significant. This update remedies a memory leak vulnerability associated with the use of rpcbind.
An update for libtirpc is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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 libtirpc packages contain SunLib's implementation of transport-independent remote procedure call (TI-RPC) documentation, which includes a library required by programs in the nfs-utils and rpcbind packages.
Security Fix(es):
* It was found that due to the way rpcbind uses libtirpc (libntirpc), a memory leak can occur when parsing specially crafted XDR messages. An attacker sending thousands of messages to rpcbind could cause its memory usage to grow without bound, eventually causing it to be terminated by the OOM killer. (CVE-2017-8779)

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat update important memory leak libtirpc rpcbind

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-8779 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6):
Source: libtirpc-0.2.1-13.el6_9.src.rpm
i386: libtirpc-0.2.1-13.el6_9.i686.rpm libtirpc-debuginfo-0.2.1-13.el6_9.i686.rpm
x86_64: libtirpc-0.2.1-13.el6_9.i686.rpm libtirpc-0.2.1-13.el6_9.x86_64.rpm libtirpc-debuginfo-0.2.1-13.el6_9.i686.rpm libtirpc-debuginfo-0.2.1-13.el6_9.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6):
i386: libtirpc-debuginfo-0.2.1-13.el6_9.i686.rpm libtirpc-devel-0.2.1-13.el6_9.i686.rpm
x86_64: libtirpc-debuginfo-0.2.1-13.el6_9.i686.rpm libtirpc-debuginfo-0.2.1-13.el6_9.x86_64.rpm libtirpc-devel-0.2.1-13.el6_9.i686.rpm libtirpc-devel-0.2.1-13.el6_9.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6):
Source: libtirpc-0.2.1-13.el6_9.src.rpm
x86_64: libtirpc-0.2.1-13.el6_9.i686.rpm libtirpc-0.2.1-13.el6_9.x86_64.rpm libtirpc-debuginfo-0.2.1-13.el6_9.i686.rpm libtirpc-debuginfo-0.2.1-13.el6_9.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6):
x86_64: libtirpc-debuginfo-0.2.1-13.el6_9.i686.rpm libtirpc-debuginfo-0.2.1-13.el6_9.x86_64.rpm libtirpc-devel-0.2.1-13.el6_9.i686.rpm libtirpc-devel-0.2.1-13.el6_9.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6):
Source: libtirpc-0.2.1-13.el6_9.src.rpm
i386: libtirpc-0.2.1-13.el6_9.i686.rpm libtirpc-debuginfo-0.2.1-13.el6_9.i686.rpm
ppc64:

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2017:1268-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1268
Issue date: 2017-05-23

Topic

An update for libtirpc is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat update important memory leak libtirpc rpcbind

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) - i386, ppc64, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6) - i386, ppc64, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1448124 - CVE-2017-8779 rpcbind, libtirpc, libntirpc: Memory leak when failing to parse XDR strings or bytearrays

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