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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: RHSA-2019-0990-01 Security Update for systemd

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Calendar Grey May 7, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
The latest systemd refresh for CentOS 8 addresses vulnerability CVE-2019-6454 and boosts overall service performance.
An update for systemd is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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 systemd packages contain systemd, a system and service manager for Linux, compatible with the SysV and LSB init scripts. It provides aggressive parallelism capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, and keeps track of processes using Linux cgroups. In addition, it supports snapshotting and restoring of the system state, maintains mount and automount points, and implements an elaborate transactional dependency-based service control logic. It can also work as a drop-in replacement for sysvinit.
Security Fix(es):
* systemd: Insufficient input validation in bus_process_object() resulting in PID 1 crash (CVE-2019-6454)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Bug Fix(es):
* [PATCH] bus-socket: Fix line_begins() to accept word matching full (BZ#1693578)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Red Hat bug fix systemd service manager

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-6454 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8):
Source: systemd-239-13.el8_0.3.src.rpm
aarch64: systemd-239-13.el8_0.3.aarch64.rpm systemd-container-239-13.el8_0.3.aarch64.rpm systemd-container-debuginfo-239-13.el8_0.3.aarch64.rpm systemd-debuginfo-239-13.el8_0.3.aarch64.rpm systemd-debugsource-239-13.el8_0.3.aarch64.rpm systemd-devel-239-13.el8_0.3.aarch64.rpm systemd-journal-remote-239-13.el8_0.3.aarch64.rpm systemd-journal-remote-debuginfo-239-13.el8_0.3.aarch64.rpm systemd-libs-239-13.el8_0.3.aarch64.rpm systemd-libs-debuginfo-239-13.el8_0.3.aarch64.rpm systemd-pam-239-13.el8_0.3.aarch64.rpm systemd-pam-debuginfo-239-13.el8_0.3.aarch64.rpm systemd-tests-239-13.el8_0.3.aarch64.rpm systemd-tests-debuginfo-239-13.el8_0.3.aarch64.rpm systemd-udev-239-13.el8_0.3.aarch64.rpm systemd-udev-debuginfo-239-13.el8_0.3.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: systemd-239-13.el8_0.3.ppc64le.rpm systemd-container-239-13.el8_0.3.ppc64le.rpm systemd-container-debuginfo-239-13.el8_0.3.ppc64le.rpm systemd-debuginfo-239-13.el8_0.3.ppc64le.rpm systemd-debugsource-239-13.el8_0.3.ppc64le.rpm systemd-devel-239-13.el8_0.3.ppc64le.rpm systemd-journal-remote-239-13.el8_0.3.ppc64le.rpm systemd-journal-remote-debuginfo-239-13.el8_0.3.ppc64le.rpm systemd-libs-239-13.el8_0.3.ppc64le.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:0990-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0990
Issue date: 2019-05-07

Topic

An update for systemd is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Red Hat bug fix systemd service manager

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1667032 - CVE-2019-6454 systemd: Insufficient input validation in bus_process_object() resulting in PID 1 crash

1693578 - [PATCH] bus-socket: Fix line_begins() to accept word matching full[ZStream Clone]

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