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RHEL 8: RHSA-2021-1857-01 Moderate: Raptor3 Security Patch

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Calendar Grey May 18, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat has issued a significant advisory regarding raptor2, tackling a buffer overflow and segmentation fault problem. Read on for further information.
An update for raptor2 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

Raptor is the RDF Parser Toolkit for Redland that provides a set of standalone RDF parsers, generating triples from RDF/XML or N-Triples.
Security Fix(es):
* raptor: heap-based buffer overflows due to an error in calculating the maximum nspace declarations for the XML writer (CVE-2017-18926)
* raptor2: malformed input file can lead to a segfault due to an out of bounds array access in raptor_xml_writer_start_element_common (CVE-2020-25713)
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 Red Hat buffer overflow security fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux segfault raptor2

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-18926 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-25713 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 AppStream (v. 8):
Source: raptor2-2.0.15-16.el8.src.rpm
ppc64le: raptor2-2.0.15-16.el8.ppc64le.rpm raptor2-debuginfo-2.0.15-16.el8.ppc64le.rpm raptor2-debugsource-2.0.15-16.el8.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64: raptor2-2.0.15-16.el8.i686.rpm raptor2-2.0.15-16.el8.x86_64.rpm raptor2-debuginfo-2.0.15-16.el8.i686.rpm raptor2-debuginfo-2.0.15-16.el8.x86_64.rpm raptor2-debugsource-2.0.15-16.el8.i686.rpm raptor2-debugsource-2.0.15-16.el8.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8):
Source: raptor2-2.0.15-16.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: raptor2-2.0.15-16.el8.aarch64.rpm raptor2-debuginfo-2.0.15-16.el8.aarch64.rpm raptor2-debugsource-2.0.15-16.el8.aarch64.rpm raptor2-devel-2.0.15-16.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: raptor2-debuginfo-2.0.15-16.el8.ppc64le.rpm raptor2-debugsource-2.0.15-16.el8.ppc64le.rpm raptor2-devel-2.0.15-16.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: raptor2-2.0.15-16.el8.s390x.rpm raptor2-debuginfo-2.0.15-16.el8.s390x.rpm raptor2-debugsource-2.0.15-16.el8.s390x.rpm raptor2-devel-2.0.15-16.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64: raptor2-debuginfo-2.0.15-16.el8.i686.rpm raptor2-debuginfo-2.0.15-16.el8.x86_64.rpm raptor2-debugsource-2.0.15-16.el8.i686.rpm raptor2-debugsource-2.0.15-16.el8.x86_64.rpm raptor2-devel-2.0.15-16.el8.i686.rpm raptor2-devel-2.0.15-16.el8.x86_64.rpm


Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:1842-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1842
Issue date: 2021-05-18

Topic

An update for raptor2 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 Red Hat buffer overflow security fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux segfault raptor2

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

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

Bugs Fixed

1896120 - CVE-2017-18926 raptor: heap-based buffer overflows due to an error in calculating the maximum nspace declarations for the XML writer

1900685 - CVE-2020-25713 raptor2: malformed input file can lead to a segfault due to an out of bounds array access in raptor_xml_writer_start_element_common

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