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Red Hat 6: RHSA-2018-2284-01 Critical: Yum-Utils Path Issue

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Calendar Grey July 30, 2018
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The yum-utils package for RHEL 6 is under a critical security advisory due to path validation vulnerabilities, prompting users to urgently apply Red Hat's updates for protection
An update for yum-utils 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 yum-utils packages provide a collection of utilities and examples for the yum package manager to make yum easier and more powerful to use.
Security Fix(es):
* yum-utils: reposync: improper path validation may lead to directory traversal (CVE-2018-10897)
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 Jay Grizzard (Clover Network) and Aaron Levy (Clover Network) for reporting this issue.

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Topics Covered

security advisory red hat directory traversal important path issue yum-utils

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-10897 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6):
Source: yum-utils-1.1.30-42.el6_10.src.rpm
noarch: yum-plugin-aliases-1.1.30-42.el6_10.noarch.rpm yum-plugin-changelog-1.1.30-42.el6_10.noarch.rpm yum-plugin-ovl-1.1.30-42.el6_10.noarch.rpm yum-plugin-security-1.1.30-42.el6_10.noarch.rpm yum-plugin-tmprepo-1.1.30-42.el6_10.noarch.rpm yum-plugin-verify-1.1.30-42.el6_10.noarch.rpm yum-plugin-versionlock-1.1.30-42.el6_10.noarch.rpm yum-utils-1.1.30-42.el6_10.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6):
noarch: yum-NetworkManager-dispatcher-1.1.30-42.el6_10.noarch.rpm yum-plugin-auto-update-debug-info-1.1.30-42.el6_10.noarch.rpm yum-plugin-fastestmirror-1.1.30-42.el6_10.noarch.rpm yum-plugin-filter-data-1.1.30-42.el6_10.noarch.rpm yum-plugin-fs-snapshot-1.1.30-42.el6_10.noarch.rpm yum-plugin-keys-1.1.30-42.el6_10.noarch.rpm yum-plugin-list-data-1.1.30-42.el6_10.noarch.rpm yum-plugin-local-1.1.30-42.el6_10.noarch.rpm yum-plugin-merge-conf-1.1.30-42.el6_10.noarch.rpm yum-plugin-post-transaction-actions-1.1.30-42.el6_10.noarch.rpm yum-plugin-priorities-1.1.30-42.el6_10.noarch.rpm yum-plugin-protectbase-1.1.30-42.el6_10.noarch.rpm yum-plugin-ps-1.1.30-42.el6_10.noarch.rpm yum-plugin-remove-with-leaves-1.1.30-42.el6_10.noarch.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Critical

Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:2284-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2284
Issue date: 2018-07-30

Topic

An update for yum-utils 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 directory traversal important path issue yum-utils

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) - noarch

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6) - noarch

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

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) - noarch

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6) - noarch

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) - noarch

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6) - noarch

Bugs Fixed

1600221 - CVE-2018-10897 yum-utils: reposync: improper path validation may lead to directory traversal

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