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Red Hat 8: RHSA-2021-1609-01 Medium: p11-kit Security Risk

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Calendar Grey May 18, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat's moderate update for p11-kit tackles critical bugs and improves security features for RHEL 8.
An update for p11-kit 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 p11-kit packages provide a mechanism to manage PKCS#11 modules. The p11-kit-trust subpackage includes a PKCS#11 trust module that provides certificate anchors and black lists based on configuration files.
The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: p11-kit (0.23.22). (BZ#1887853)
Security Fix(es):
* p11-kit: integer overflow when allocating memory for arrays or attributes and object identifiers (CVE-2020-29361)
* p11-kit: out-of-bounds read in p11_rpc_buffer_get_byte_array function in rpc-message.c (CVE-2020-29362)
* p11-kit: out-of-bounds write in p11_rpc_buffer_get_byte_array_value function in rpc-message.c (CVE-2020-29363)
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 8.4 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security issue Red Hat bug fix medium severity Red Hat Enterprise Linux memory overflow threat update p11-kit

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-29361 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-29362 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-29363 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.4_release_notes/

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8):
Source: p11-kit-0.23.22-1.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: p11-kit-0.23.22-1.el8.aarch64.rpm p11-kit-debuginfo-0.23.22-1.el8.aarch64.rpm p11-kit-debugsource-0.23.22-1.el8.aarch64.rpm p11-kit-devel-0.23.22-1.el8.aarch64.rpm p11-kit-server-0.23.22-1.el8.aarch64.rpm p11-kit-server-debuginfo-0.23.22-1.el8.aarch64.rpm p11-kit-trust-0.23.22-1.el8.aarch64.rpm p11-kit-trust-debuginfo-0.23.22-1.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: p11-kit-0.23.22-1.el8.ppc64le.rpm p11-kit-debuginfo-0.23.22-1.el8.ppc64le.rpm p11-kit-debugsource-0.23.22-1.el8.ppc64le.rpm p11-kit-devel-0.23.22-1.el8.ppc64le.rpm p11-kit-server-0.23.22-1.el8.ppc64le.rpm p11-kit-server-debuginfo-0.23.22-1.el8.ppc64le.rpm p11-kit-trust-0.23.22-1.el8.ppc64le.rpm p11-kit-trust-debuginfo-0.23.22-1.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: p11-kit-0.23.22-1.el8.s390x.rpm p11-kit-debuginfo-0.23.22-1.el8.s390x.rpm p11-kit-debugsource-0.23.22-1.el8.s390x.rpm p11-kit-devel-0.23.22-1.el8.s390x.rpm p11-kit-server-0.23.22-1.el8.s390x.rpm p11-kit-server-debuginfo-0.23.22-1.el8.s390x.rpm p11-kit-trust-0.23.22-1.el8.s390x.rpm p11-kit-trust-debuginfo-0.23.22-1.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64: p11-kit-0.23.22-1.el8.i686.rpm p11-kit-0.23.22-1.el8.x86_64.rpm p11-kit-debuginfo-0.23.22-1.el8.i686.rpm p11-kit-debuginfo-0.23.22-1.el8.x86_64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:1609-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1609
Issue date: 2021-05-18

Topic

An update for p11-kit 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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security issue Red Hat bug fix medium severity Red Hat Enterprise Linux memory overflow threat update p11-kit

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

1665172 - SIGABRT when trust anchor read a malformed file

1890464 - p11-kit freeze for invalid module configuration

1903588 - CVE-2020-29363 p11-kit: out-of-bounds write in p11_rpc_buffer_get_byte_array_value function in rpc-message.c

1903590 - CVE-2020-29362 p11-kit: out-of-bounds read in p11_rpc_buffer_get_byte_array function in rpc-message.c

1903592 - CVE-2020-29361 p11-kit: integer overflow when allocating memory for arrays or attributes and object identifiers

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