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RedHat: RHSA-2020-4697 Moderate: targetcli Weak Permissions Fix

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Calendar Grey November 4, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
An important targetcli security patch has been released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. This update addresses specific permission-related vulnerabilities that have been discovered.
An update for targetcli 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 targetcli package contains an administration shell for configuring Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI), Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), and other SCSI targets, using the Target Core Mod/Linux-IO (TCM/LIO) kernel target subsystem. FCoE users also need to install and use the fcoe-utils package.
The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: targetcli (2.1.53). (BZ#1845167)
Security Fix(es):
* targetcli: weak permissions for /etc/target and backup files (CVE-2020-13867)
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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security issue red hat enterprise iSCSI targetcli FCoE

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-13867 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: targetcli-2.1.53-1.el8.src.rpm
noarch: targetcli-2.1.53-1.el8.noarch.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-2020:4697-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4697
Issue date: 2020-11-03

Topic

An update for targetcli 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 moderate security issue red hat enterprise iSCSI targetcli FCoE

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - noarch

Bugs Fixed

1820167 - RHEL8.3: update targetcli to latest version

1848143 - CVE-2020-13867 targetcli: weak permissions for /etc/target and backup files

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