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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0: RHSA-2020-3044-01 Important: D-Bus DoS

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Calendar Grey July 21, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Critical update released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux dbus that includes essential security patches targeting denial of service vulnerabilities.
An update for dbus is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions

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

For the update to take effect, all running instances of dbus-daemon and all running applications using the libdbus library must be restarted, or the system rebooted.

Summary

D-Bus is a system for sending messages between applications. It is used both for the system-wide message bus service, and as a per-user-login-session messaging facility.
Security Fix(es):
* dbus: denial of service via file descriptor leak (CVE-2020-12049)
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 denial of service Red Hat update important dbus service impact

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-12049 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.0):
aarch64: dbus-daemon-debuginfo-1.12.8-8.el8_0.aarch64.rpm dbus-debuginfo-1.12.8-8.el8_0.aarch64.rpm dbus-debugsource-1.12.8-8.el8_0.aarch64.rpm dbus-devel-1.12.8-8.el8_0.aarch64.rpm dbus-libs-debuginfo-1.12.8-8.el8_0.aarch64.rpm dbus-tests-debuginfo-1.12.8-8.el8_0.aarch64.rpm dbus-tools-debuginfo-1.12.8-8.el8_0.aarch64.rpm dbus-x11-1.12.8-8.el8_0.aarch64.rpm dbus-x11-debuginfo-1.12.8-8.el8_0.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: dbus-daemon-debuginfo-1.12.8-8.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm dbus-debuginfo-1.12.8-8.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm dbus-debugsource-1.12.8-8.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm dbus-devel-1.12.8-8.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm dbus-libs-debuginfo-1.12.8-8.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm dbus-tests-debuginfo-1.12.8-8.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm dbus-tools-debuginfo-1.12.8-8.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm dbus-x11-1.12.8-8.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm dbus-x11-debuginfo-1.12.8-8.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: dbus-daemon-debuginfo-1.12.8-8.el8_0.s390x.rpm dbus-debuginfo-1.12.8-8.el8_0.s390x.rpm dbus-debugsource-1.12.8-8.el8_0.s390x.rpm dbus-devel-1.12.8-8.el8_0.s390x.rpm dbus-libs-debuginfo-1.12.8-8.el8_0.s390x.rpm dbus-tests-debuginfo-1.12.8-8.el8_0.s390x.rpm dbus-tools-debuginfo-1.12.8-8.el8_0.s390x.rpm dbus-x11-1.12.8-8.el8_0.s390x.rpm dbus-x11-debuginfo-1.12.8-8.el8_0.s390x.rpm
x86_64:

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Severity
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:3044-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:3044
Issue date: 2020-07-21

Topic

An update for dbus is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 UpdateServices for SAP Solutions.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service Red Hat update important dbus service impact

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.0) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.0) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1849041 - CVE-2020-12049 dbus: denial of service via file descriptor leak

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