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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RHSA-2021:4374 Moderate Heap Overflow

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Calendar Grey November 9, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat has issued a significant severity patch for RHEL 8, rectifying a memory corruption vulnerability. Discover additional details here.
An update for file 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 file command is used to identify a particular file according to the type of data the file contains. It can identify many different file types, including Executable and Linkable Format (ELF) binary files, system libraries, RPM packages, and different graphics formats.
Security Fix(es):
* file: heap-based buffer overflow in cdf_read_property_info in cdf.c (CVE-2019-18218)
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 8.5 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Red Hat heap overflow security impact file issue

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-18218 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.5_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8):
Source: file-5.33-20.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: file-5.33-20.el8.aarch64.rpm file-debuginfo-5.33-20.el8.aarch64.rpm file-debugsource-5.33-20.el8.aarch64.rpm file-libs-5.33-20.el8.aarch64.rpm file-libs-debuginfo-5.33-20.el8.aarch64.rpm
noarch: python3-magic-5.33-20.el8.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: file-5.33-20.el8.ppc64le.rpm file-debuginfo-5.33-20.el8.ppc64le.rpm file-debugsource-5.33-20.el8.ppc64le.rpm file-libs-5.33-20.el8.ppc64le.rpm file-libs-debuginfo-5.33-20.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: file-5.33-20.el8.s390x.rpm file-debuginfo-5.33-20.el8.s390x.rpm file-debugsource-5.33-20.el8.s390x.rpm file-libs-5.33-20.el8.s390x.rpm file-libs-debuginfo-5.33-20.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64: file-5.33-20.el8.x86_64.rpm file-debuginfo-5.33-20.el8.i686.rpm file-debuginfo-5.33-20.el8.x86_64.rpm file-debugsource-5.33-20.el8.i686.rpm file-debugsource-5.33-20.el8.x86_64.rpm file-libs-5.33-20.el8.i686.rpm file-libs-5.33-20.el8.x86_64.rpm file-libs-debuginfo-5.33-20.el8.i686.rpm file-libs-debuginfo-5.33-20.el8.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 8):
aarch64: file-debuginfo-5.33-20.el8.aarch64.rpm file-debugsource-5.33-20.el8.aarch64.rpm file-devel-5.33-20.el8.aarch64.rpm file-libs-debuginfo-5.33-20.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: file-debuginfo-5.33-20.el8.ppc64le.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:4374-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4374
Issue date: 2021-11-09

Topic

An update for file 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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Red Hat heap overflow security impact file issue

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

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

Bugs Fixed

1765272 - CVE-2019-18218 file: heap-based buffer overflow in cdf_read_property_info in cdf.c

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