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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: RHSA-2019-3673-01 Low: lldpad Security Fix

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Calendar Grey November 5, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A new version of lldpad has been released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, addressing a low severity security vulnerability alongside several critical updates.
An update for lldpad is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low

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 lldpad packages provide the Linux user space daemon and configuration tool for Intel's Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) Agent with Enhanced Ethernet support.
Security Fix(es):
* lldptool: improper sanitization of shell-escape codes (CVE-2018-10932)
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.

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-10932 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low 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: lldpad-1.0.1-13.git036e314.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: lldpad-1.0.1-13.git036e314.el8.aarch64.rpm lldpad-debuginfo-1.0.1-13.git036e314.el8.aarch64.rpm lldpad-debugsource-1.0.1-13.git036e314.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: lldpad-1.0.1-13.git036e314.el8.ppc64le.rpm lldpad-debuginfo-1.0.1-13.git036e314.el8.ppc64le.rpm lldpad-debugsource-1.0.1-13.git036e314.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: lldpad-1.0.1-13.git036e314.el8.s390x.rpm lldpad-debuginfo-1.0.1-13.git036e314.el8.s390x.rpm lldpad-debugsource-1.0.1-13.git036e314.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64: lldpad-1.0.1-13.git036e314.el8.i686.rpm lldpad-1.0.1-13.git036e314.el8.x86_64.rpm lldpad-debuginfo-1.0.1-13.git036e314.el8.i686.rpm lldpad-debuginfo-1.0.1-13.git036e314.el8.x86_64.rpm lldpad-debugsource-1.0.1-13.git036e314.el8.i686.rpm lldpad-debugsource-1.0.1-13.git036e314.el8.x86_64.rpm
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:3673-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue date: 2019-11-05

Topic

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

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. 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.

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

1614896 - CVE-2018-10932 lldptool: improper sanitization of shell-escape codes

1727326 - lldpad memory usage increases over time

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