RedHat: RHSA-2020-4807:01 Moderate: prometheus-jmx-exporter security update
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.
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-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/
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.
Topic
Relevant Releases Architectures
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - noarch
Bugs Fixed
1785376 - CVE-2017-18640 snakeyaml: Billion laughs attack via alias feature