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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RHSA-2021-2717 Important: Systemd DoS

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Calendar Grey July 20, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Significant announcement regarding systemd introduced on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Address any security loopholes and strengthen protective protocols.
An update for systemd 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 systemd packages contain systemd, a system and service manager for Linux, compatible with the SysV and LSB init scripts. It provides aggressive parallelism capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, and keeps track of processes using Linux cgroups. In addition, it supports snapshotting and restoring of the system state, maintains mount and automount points, and implements an elaborate transactional dependency-based service control logic. It can also work as a drop-in replacement for sysvinit.
Security Fix(es):
* systemd: uncontrolled allocation on the stack in function unit_name_path_escape leads to crash (CVE-2021-33910)
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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue DoS Red Hat Enterprise Linux important systemd update

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-33910 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/RHSB-2021-006

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8):
Source: systemd-239-45.el8_4.2.src.rpm
aarch64: systemd-239-45.el8_4.2.aarch64.rpm systemd-container-239-45.el8_4.2.aarch64.rpm systemd-container-debuginfo-239-45.el8_4.2.aarch64.rpm systemd-debuginfo-239-45.el8_4.2.aarch64.rpm systemd-debugsource-239-45.el8_4.2.aarch64.rpm systemd-devel-239-45.el8_4.2.aarch64.rpm systemd-journal-remote-239-45.el8_4.2.aarch64.rpm systemd-journal-remote-debuginfo-239-45.el8_4.2.aarch64.rpm systemd-libs-239-45.el8_4.2.aarch64.rpm systemd-libs-debuginfo-239-45.el8_4.2.aarch64.rpm systemd-pam-239-45.el8_4.2.aarch64.rpm systemd-pam-debuginfo-239-45.el8_4.2.aarch64.rpm systemd-tests-239-45.el8_4.2.aarch64.rpm systemd-tests-debuginfo-239-45.el8_4.2.aarch64.rpm systemd-udev-239-45.el8_4.2.aarch64.rpm systemd-udev-debuginfo-239-45.el8_4.2.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: systemd-239-45.el8_4.2.ppc64le.rpm systemd-container-239-45.el8_4.2.ppc64le.rpm systemd-container-debuginfo-239-45.el8_4.2.ppc64le.rpm systemd-debuginfo-239-45.el8_4.2.ppc64le.rpm systemd-debugsource-239-45.el8_4.2.ppc64le.rpm systemd-devel-239-45.el8_4.2.ppc64le.rpm systemd-journal-remote-239-45.el8_4.2.ppc64le.rpm systemd-journal-remote-debuginfo-239-45.el8_4.2.ppc64le.rpm systemd-libs-239-45.el8_4.2.ppc64le.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:2717-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:2717
Issue date: 2021-07-20

Topic

An update for systemd is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue DoS Red Hat Enterprise Linux important systemd update

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

1970887 - CVE-2021-33910 systemd: uncontrolled allocation on the stack in function unit_name_path_escape leads to crash

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