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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RHSA-2019:2033-01 Low Severity Patch Update

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Calendar Grey August 6, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Oracle has issued a critical security notice for software enhancements in Cloud Infrastructure 1, tackling significant vulnerabilities.
An update for patch 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

The patch program applies diff files to originals. The diff command is used to compare an original to a changed file. Diff lists the changes made to the file. A person who has the original file can then use the patch command with the diff file to add the changes to their original file (patching the file).
Security Fix(es):
* patch: Out-of-bounds access in pch_write_line function in pch.c (CVE-2016-10713)
* patch: Double free of memory in pch.c:another_hunk() causes a crash (CVE-2018-6952)
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.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue update bug fix patch red hat enterprise linux low

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-10713 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-6952 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.7_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: patch-2.7.1-11.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: patch-2.7.1-11.el7.x86_64.rpm patch-debuginfo-2.7.1-11.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7):
Source: patch-2.7.1-11.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: patch-2.7.1-11.el7.x86_64.rpm patch-debuginfo-2.7.1-11.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: patch-2.7.1-11.el7.src.rpm
ppc64: patch-2.7.1-11.el7.ppc64.rpm patch-debuginfo-2.7.1-11.el7.ppc64.rpm
ppc64le: patch-2.7.1-11.el7.ppc64le.rpm patch-debuginfo-2.7.1-11.el7.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: patch-2.7.1-11.el7.s390x.rpm patch-debuginfo-2.7.1-11.el7.s390x.rpm
x86_64: patch-2.7.1-11.el7.x86_64.rpm patch-debuginfo-2.7.1-11.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7):
Source: patch-2.7.1-11.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: patch-2.7.1-11.el7.x86_64.rpm patch-debuginfo-2.7.1-11.el7.x86_64.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/


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:2033-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2033
Issue date: 2019-08-06

Topic

An update for patch is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Low. 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 issue update bug fix patch red hat enterprise linux low

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

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

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

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

Bugs Fixed

1545053 - CVE-2018-6952 patch: Double free of memory in pch.c:another_hunk() causes a crash

1545405 - CVE-2016-10713 patch: Out-of-bounds access in pch_write_line function in pch.c

1626473 - rpmbuild doesn't honor "new file mode 100755" when applying patches

1653294 - patch: Gnulib bundled but no bundled(gnulib) provides

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