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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RHSA-2019:1527-01 Moderate WALinuxAgent Issue

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Calendar Grey June 18, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
New release of WALinuxAgent has been issued, addressing moderate security vulnerabilities for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
An update for WALinuxAgent 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 Windows Azure Linux Agent supports provisioning and running Linux virtual machines in the Microsoft Windows Azure cloud.
Security Fix(es):
* WALinuxAgent: swapfile created with weak permissions (CVE-2019-0804)
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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Red Hat WALinuxAgent swapfile issue

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-0804 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: WALinuxAgent-2.2.32-1.el8_0.1.src.rpm
noarch: WALinuxAgent-2.2.32-1.el8_0.1.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-2019:1527-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1527
Issue date: 2019-06-18

Topic

An update for WALinuxAgent 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 WALinuxAgent swapfile issue

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - noarch

Bugs Fixed

1684181 - CVE-2019-0804 WALinuxAgent: swapfile created with weak permissions

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