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Red Hat Enterprise Linux: RHSA-2020-5607-01 Critical Boot Issue Fix

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Calendar Grey December 17, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A significant enhancement for fapolicyd on Red Hat Enterprise Linux resolves a major flaw impacting the system start-up sequences.
An update for fapolicyd 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 fapolicyd software framework introduces a form of file access control based on a user-defined policy. The application file access control feature provides one of the most efficient ways to prevent running untrusted and possibly malicious applications on the system.
Bug Fix(es):
* When an update replaces the binary of a running application, the kernel modifies the application binary path in memory by appending the " (deleted)" suffix. Previously, the fapolicyd file access policy daemon treated such applications as untrusted, and prevented them from opening and executing any other files. As a consequence, the system was sometimes unable to boot after applying updates.
With this update, fapolicyd ignores the suffix in the binary path so the binary can match the trust database. As a result, fapolicyd enforces the rules correctly and the update process can finish.
(BZ#1906472)
* Adding DISA STIG during OS installation causes 'ipa-server-install' to fail
(BZ#1905895)
Note: The issue from BZ#1906472 was previously addressed in erratum RHBA-2020:5242 linked to from the References section. Due to the high impact of the issue that can cause systems to become unable to boot, we are releasing the same fix again in a security erratum to ensure proper visibility to users who only install security updates. This fix has not been changed in any way since the original bug fix erratum. This erratum does not provide any security fixes.
For more details about the issue, see the Knowledgebase article linked from the References section.

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2020:5242 https://access.redhat.com/solutions/5542661

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: fapolicyd-1.0-3.el8_3.4.src.rpm
aarch64: fapolicyd-1.0-3.el8_3.4.aarch64.rpm fapolicyd-debuginfo-1.0-3.el8_3.4.aarch64.rpm fapolicyd-debugsource-1.0-3.el8_3.4.aarch64.rpm
noarch: fapolicyd-selinux-1.0-3.el8_3.4.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: fapolicyd-1.0-3.el8_3.4.ppc64le.rpm fapolicyd-debuginfo-1.0-3.el8_3.4.ppc64le.rpm fapolicyd-debugsource-1.0-3.el8_3.4.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: fapolicyd-1.0-3.el8_3.4.s390x.rpm fapolicyd-debuginfo-1.0-3.el8_3.4.s390x.rpm fapolicyd-debugsource-1.0-3.el8_3.4.s390x.rpm
x86_64: fapolicyd-1.0-3.el8_3.4.x86_64.rpm fapolicyd-debuginfo-1.0-3.el8_3.4.x86_64.rpm fapolicyd-debugsource-1.0-3.el8_3.4.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/


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:5607-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue date: 2020-12-17

Topic

An update for fapolicyd is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1905895 - Adding DISA STIG during OS installation causes 'ipa-server-install' to fail [rhel-8.3.0.z]

1906472 - Erratum RHBA-2020:4969 is of no help when upgrading partially RHEL 8.2 systems [rhel-8.3.0.z]

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