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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Update: Moderate RHSA-2019-3610-01 libqb IPC Fix

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Calendar Grey November 5, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
This notice pertains to a security patch of medium intensity for libqb in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, addressing IPC file vulnerabilities.
An update for libqb is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate

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 libqb packages provide a library with the primary purpose of providing high performance client/server reusable features, such as high performance logging, tracing, inter-process communication, and polling.
Security Fix(es):
* libqb: Insecure treatment of IPC (temporary) files (CVE-2019-12779)
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 8.1 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux security impact libqb IPC files

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-12779 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.1_release_notes/

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8):
Source: libqb-1.0.3-10.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: libqb-1.0.3-10.el8.aarch64.rpm libqb-debuginfo-1.0.3-10.el8.aarch64.rpm libqb-debugsource-1.0.3-10.el8.aarch64.rpm libqb-devel-1.0.3-10.el8.aarch64.rpm libqb-tests-debuginfo-1.0.3-10.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: libqb-1.0.3-10.el8.ppc64le.rpm libqb-debuginfo-1.0.3-10.el8.ppc64le.rpm libqb-debugsource-1.0.3-10.el8.ppc64le.rpm libqb-devel-1.0.3-10.el8.ppc64le.rpm libqb-tests-debuginfo-1.0.3-10.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: libqb-1.0.3-10.el8.s390x.rpm libqb-debuginfo-1.0.3-10.el8.s390x.rpm libqb-debugsource-1.0.3-10.el8.s390x.rpm libqb-devel-1.0.3-10.el8.s390x.rpm libqb-tests-debuginfo-1.0.3-10.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64: libqb-1.0.3-10.el8.i686.rpm libqb-1.0.3-10.el8.x86_64.rpm libqb-debuginfo-1.0.3-10.el8.i686.rpm libqb-debuginfo-1.0.3-10.el8.x86_64.rpm libqb-debugsource-1.0.3-10.el8.i686.rpm libqb-debugsource-1.0.3-10.el8.x86_64.rpm libqb-devel-1.0.3-10.el8.i686.rpm libqb-devel-1.0.3-10.el8.x86_64.rpm libqb-tests-debuginfo-1.0.3-10.el8.i686.rpm libqb-tests-debuginfo-1.0.3-10.el8.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-2019:3610-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3610
Issue date: 2019-11-05

Topic

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

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux security impact libqb IPC files

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

1695948 - CVE-2019-12779 libqb: Insecure treatment of IPC (temporary) files

1718773 - Avoid libqb deadlock due to not using selected socket poll priority

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