RedHat: RHSA-2020-4687:01 Moderate: oddjob security, bug fix,
Summary
The oddjob packages contain a D-Bus service which performs particular tasks
for clients which connect to it and issue requests using the system-wide
message bus.
The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version:
oddjob (0.34.5). (BZ#1833289)
Security Fix(es):
* oddjob: race condition in oddjob_selinux_mkdir function in mkhomedir.c
can lead to symlink attack (CVE-2020-10737)
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 8.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.
Summary
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
References
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-10737 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.3_release_notes/
Package List
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source:
oddjob-0.34.5-3.el8.src.rpm
aarch64:
oddjob-0.34.5-3.el8.aarch64.rpm
oddjob-debuginfo-0.34.5-3.el8.aarch64.rpm
oddjob-debugsource-0.34.5-3.el8.aarch64.rpm
oddjob-mkhomedir-0.34.5-3.el8.aarch64.rpm
oddjob-mkhomedir-debuginfo-0.34.5-3.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le:
oddjob-0.34.5-3.el8.ppc64le.rpm
oddjob-debuginfo-0.34.5-3.el8.ppc64le.rpm
oddjob-debugsource-0.34.5-3.el8.ppc64le.rpm
oddjob-mkhomedir-0.34.5-3.el8.ppc64le.rpm
oddjob-mkhomedir-debuginfo-0.34.5-3.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x:
oddjob-0.34.5-3.el8.s390x.rpm
oddjob-debuginfo-0.34.5-3.el8.s390x.rpm
oddjob-debugsource-0.34.5-3.el8.s390x.rpm
oddjob-mkhomedir-0.34.5-3.el8.s390x.rpm
oddjob-mkhomedir-debuginfo-0.34.5-3.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64:
oddjob-0.34.5-3.el8.x86_64.rpm
oddjob-debuginfo-0.34.5-3.el8.x86_64.rpm
oddjob-debugsource-0.34.5-3.el8.x86_64.rpm
oddjob-mkhomedir-0.34.5-3.el8.x86_64.rpm
oddjob-mkhomedir-debuginfo-0.34.5-3.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/
Topic
An update for oddjob 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.
Topic
Relevant Releases Architectures
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64
Bugs Fixed
1833042 - CVE-2020-10737 oddjob: race condition in oddjob_selinux_mkdir function in mkhomedir.c can lead to symlink attack
1833289 - [Rebase] Rebase oddjob to 0.34.5
1886362 - oddjob-mkhomedir - homedir has a wrong permissions