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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: RHSA-2020:1852 Moderate Patch Update

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Calendar Grey April 28, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A recent update from Red Hat Security provides a necessary patch to address security vulnerabilities and improve overall system robustness.
An update for patch 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 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: the following of symlinks in inp.c and util.c is mishandled in cases other than input files (CVE-2019-13636)
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 8.2 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux patch management patch update Moderate severity CVE-2019-13636

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-13636 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.2_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8):
Source: patch-2.7.6-11.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: patch-2.7.6-11.el8.aarch64.rpm patch-debuginfo-2.7.6-11.el8.aarch64.rpm patch-debugsource-2.7.6-11.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: patch-2.7.6-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm patch-debuginfo-2.7.6-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm patch-debugsource-2.7.6-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: patch-2.7.6-11.el8.s390x.rpm patch-debuginfo-2.7.6-11.el8.s390x.rpm patch-debugsource-2.7.6-11.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64: patch-2.7.6-11.el8.x86_64.rpm patch-debuginfo-2.7.6-11.el8.x86_64.rpm patch-debugsource-2.7.6-11.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/


Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:1852-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1852
Issue date: 2020-04-28

Topic

An update for patch 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 bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux patch management patch update Moderate severity CVE-2019-13636

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

1732781 - CVE-2019-13636 patch: the following of symlinks in inp.c and util.c is mishandled in cases other than input files

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