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RedHat: RHSA-2021-4743 Moderate: llvm-toolset:rhel8 Trojan Source Threat

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Calendar Grey November 18, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A significant update has been released for llvm-toolset in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 to address potential trojan source vulnerabilities. Ensure you download it promptly.
An update for the llvm-toolset:rhel8 module 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

LLVM Toolset provides the LLVM compiler infrastructure framework, the Clang compiler for the C and C++ languages, the LLDB debugger, and related tools for code analysis.
Security Fix(es):
* Developer environment: Unicode's bidirectional (BiDi) override characterscan cause trojan source attacks (CVE-2021-42574)
The following changes were introduced in clang in order to facilitate detection of BiDi Unicode characters:
clang-tidy now finds identifiers that contain Unicode characters with right-to-left direction, which can be confusing as they may change the understanding of a whole statement.
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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update rhel unicode trojan source llvm-toolset

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-42574 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/RHSB-2021-007

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: clang-12.0.1-4.module+el8.5.0+13246+cefb5d4c.src.rpm compiler-rt-12.0.1-1.module+el8.5.0+11871+08d0eab5.src.rpm libomp-12.0.1-1.module+el8.5.0+11871+08d0eab5.src.rpm lld-12.0.1-1.module+el8.5.0+11871+08d0eab5.src.rpm lldb-12.0.1-1.module+el8.5.0+11871+08d0eab5.src.rpm llvm-12.0.1-2.module+el8.5.0+12488+254d2a07.src.rpm llvm-toolset-12.0.1-1.module+el8.5.0+11871+08d0eab5.src.rpm python-lit-12.0.1-1.module+el8.5.0+11871+08d0eab5.src.rpm
aarch64: clang-12.0.1-4.module+el8.5.0+13246+cefb5d4c.aarch64.rpm clang-debuginfo-12.0.1-4.module+el8.5.0+13246+cefb5d4c.aarch64.rpm clang-debugsource-12.0.1-4.module+el8.5.0+13246+cefb5d4c.aarch64.rpm clang-devel-12.0.1-4.module+el8.5.0+13246+cefb5d4c.aarch64.rpm clang-libs-12.0.1-4.module+el8.5.0+13246+cefb5d4c.aarch64.rpm clang-libs-debuginfo-12.0.1-4.module+el8.5.0+13246+cefb5d4c.aarch64.rpm clang-resource-filesystem-12.0.1-4.module+el8.5.0+13246+cefb5d4c.aarch64.rpm clang-tools-extra-12.0.1-4.module+el8.5.0+13246+cefb5d4c.aarch64.rpm clang-tools-extra-debuginfo-12.0.1-4.module+el8.5.0+13246+cefb5d4c.aarch64.rpm compiler-rt-12.0.1-1.module+el8.5.0+11871+08d0eab5.aarch64.rpm compiler-rt-debuginfo-12.0.1-1.module+el8.5.0+11871+08d0eab5.aarch64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:4743-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4743
Issue date: 2021-11-18

Topic

An update for the llvm-toolset:rhel8 module is now available for Red HatEnterprise 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 security update rhel unicode trojan source llvm-toolset

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

2005819 - CVE-2021-42574 Developer environment: Unicode's bidirectional (BiDi) override characters can cause trojan source attacks

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