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Red Hat: RHSA-2020-4807-01 Moderate: Prometheus JMX Exporter Fix

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Calendar Grey November 4, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Debian's Critical security patch for dnsmasq fixes the amplification vulnerability, improving overall network protection.
An update for prometheus-jmx-exporter 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

Prometheus JMX Exporter is a JMX to Prometheus exporter: a collector that can be configured to scrape and expose MBeans of a JMX target.
Security Fix(es):
* snakeyaml: Billion laughs attack via alias feature (CVE-2017-18640)
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 update red hat software patch billion laughs attack prometheus jmx exporter

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-18640 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: prometheus-jmx-exporter-0.12.0-6.el8.src.rpm
noarch: prometheus-jmx-exporter-0.12.0-6.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-2020:4807-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4807
Issue date: 2020-11-03

Topic

An update for prometheus-jmx-exporter is now available for Red HatEnterprise 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 update red hat software patch billion laughs attack prometheus jmx exporter

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

1785376 - CVE-2017-18640 snakeyaml: Billion laughs attack via alias feature

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