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Red Hat: RHSA-2021-4489-02 Minor: rpm Security Update Available

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Calendar Grey November 9, 2021
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Red Hat has issued an updated advisory on the RPM Package Manager for Enterprise Linux, featuring bug fixes and enhancements to boost performance and reliability
An update for rpm 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

All running applications linked against the RPM library must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Summary

The RPM Package Manager (RPM) is a command-line driven package management system capable of installing, uninstalling, verifying, querying, and updating software packages.
Security Fix(es):
* rpm: missing length checks in hdrblobInit() (CVE-2021-20266)
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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat software update bug fix security fix low severity rpm

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20266 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#low https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.5_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
aarch64: python3-rpm-debuginfo-4.14.3-19.el8.aarch64.rpm rpm-build-4.14.3-19.el8.aarch64.rpm rpm-build-debuginfo-4.14.3-19.el8.aarch64.rpm rpm-build-libs-debuginfo-4.14.3-19.el8.aarch64.rpm rpm-debuginfo-4.14.3-19.el8.aarch64.rpm rpm-debugsource-4.14.3-19.el8.aarch64.rpm rpm-devel-debuginfo-4.14.3-19.el8.aarch64.rpm rpm-libs-debuginfo-4.14.3-19.el8.aarch64.rpm rpm-plugin-fapolicyd-4.14.3-19.el8.aarch64.rpm rpm-plugin-fapolicyd-debuginfo-4.14.3-19.el8.aarch64.rpm rpm-plugin-ima-debuginfo-4.14.3-19.el8.aarch64.rpm rpm-plugin-prioreset-debuginfo-4.14.3-19.el8.aarch64.rpm rpm-plugin-selinux-debuginfo-4.14.3-19.el8.aarch64.rpm rpm-plugin-syslog-debuginfo-4.14.3-19.el8.aarch64.rpm rpm-plugin-systemd-inhibit-debuginfo-4.14.3-19.el8.aarch64.rpm rpm-sign-debuginfo-4.14.3-19.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: python3-rpm-debuginfo-4.14.3-19.el8.ppc64le.rpm rpm-build-4.14.3-19.el8.ppc64le.rpm rpm-build-debuginfo-4.14.3-19.el8.ppc64le.rpm rpm-build-libs-debuginfo-4.14.3-19.el8.ppc64le.rpm rpm-debuginfo-4.14.3-19.el8.ppc64le.rpm rpm-debugsource-4.14.3-19.el8.ppc64le.rpm rpm-devel-debuginfo-4.14.3-19.el8.ppc64le.rpm rpm-libs-debuginfo-4.14.3-19.el8.ppc64le.rpm rpm-plugin-fapolicyd-4.14.3-19.el8.ppc64le.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:4489-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4489
Issue date: 2021-11-09

Topic

An update for rpm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Low. 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 Red Hat software update bug fix security fix low severity rpm

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

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

Bugs Fixed

1840142 - python-dateutil from openstack-16-tools-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms repo triggers UnicodeWarning

1927741 - CVE-2021-20266 rpm: missing length checks in hdrblobInit()

1938928 - Backport read-only support for sqlite rpmdb

1996665 - Backport fixes for covscan issues marked as important

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