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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RHSA-2018:1223-01 Critical librelp Buffer Flaw

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Calendar Grey April 24, 2018
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A critical security vulnerability in the librelp library has been discovered, categorized as high risk. Immediate system updates are essential.
An update for librelp 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

Librelp is an easy-to-use library for the Reliable Event Logging Protocol (RELP) protocol. RELP is a general-purpose, extensible logging protocol.
Security Fix(es):
* librelp: Stack-based buffer overflow in relpTcpChkPeerName function in src/tcp.c (CVE-2018-1000140)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Red Hat would like to thank Rainer Gerhards (rsyslog) for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Bas van Schaik (lgtm.com / Semmle) and Kevin Backhouse (lgtm.com / Semmle) as the original reporters.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update buffer overflow critical Red Hat Enterprise Linux librelp librelp patch

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1000140 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: librelp-1.2.12-1.el7_5.1.src.rpm
x86_64: librelp-1.2.12-1.el7_5.1.i686.rpm librelp-1.2.12-1.el7_5.1.x86_64.rpm librelp-debuginfo-1.2.12-1.el7_5.1.i686.rpm librelp-debuginfo-1.2.12-1.el7_5.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7):
x86_64: librelp-debuginfo-1.2.12-1.el7_5.1.i686.rpm librelp-debuginfo-1.2.12-1.el7_5.1.x86_64.rpm librelp-devel-1.2.12-1.el7_5.1.i686.rpm librelp-devel-1.2.12-1.el7_5.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7):
Source: librelp-1.2.12-1.el7_5.1.src.rpm
x86_64: librelp-1.2.12-1.el7_5.1.i686.rpm librelp-1.2.12-1.el7_5.1.x86_64.rpm librelp-debuginfo-1.2.12-1.el7_5.1.i686.rpm librelp-debuginfo-1.2.12-1.el7_5.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7):
x86_64: librelp-debuginfo-1.2.12-1.el7_5.1.i686.rpm librelp-debuginfo-1.2.12-1.el7_5.1.x86_64.rpm librelp-devel-1.2.12-1.el7_5.1.i686.rpm librelp-devel-1.2.12-1.el7_5.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: librelp-1.2.12-1.el7_5.1.src.rpm
ppc64: librelp-1.2.12-1.el7_5.1.ppc.rpm librelp-1.2.12-1.el7_5.1.ppc64.rpm librelp-debuginfo-1.2.12-1.el7_5.1.ppc.rpm librelp-debuginfo-1.2.12-1.el7_5.1.ppc64.rpm
ppc64le: librelp-1.2.12-1.el7_5.1.ppc64le.rpm librelp-debuginfo-1.2.12-1.el7_5.1.ppc64le.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:1223-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1223
Issue date: 2018-04-24

Topic

An update for librelp is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Critical. 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 security update buffer overflow critical Red Hat Enterprise Linux librelp librelp patch

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) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

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

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

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM and IBM Power LE (POWER9) Server (v. 7) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM and IBM Power LE (POWER9) Server Optional (v. 7) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x

Bugs Fixed

1560084 - CVE-2018-1000140 librelp: Stack-based buffer overflow in relpTcpChkPeerName function in src/tcp.c

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