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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RHSA-2022:1891-01 Low: libpq Security Fix

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Calendar Grey May 10, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Oracle has released a minor security alert concerning libpq, focusing on the problem of transmitting sensitive data without encryption. More information available here.
An update for libpq 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 libpq package provides the PostgreSQL client library, which allows client programs to connect to PostgreSQL servers.
Security Fix(es):
* postgresql: libpq processes unencrypted bytes from man-in-the-middle (CVE-2021-23222)
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 8.6 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat Enterprise Linux low severity security impact PostgreSQL man-in-the-middle libpq

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23222 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#low https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.6_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: libpq-13.5-1.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: libpq-13.5-1.el8.aarch64.rpm libpq-debuginfo-13.5-1.el8.aarch64.rpm libpq-debugsource-13.5-1.el8.aarch64.rpm libpq-devel-13.5-1.el8.aarch64.rpm libpq-devel-debuginfo-13.5-1.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: libpq-13.5-1.el8.ppc64le.rpm libpq-debuginfo-13.5-1.el8.ppc64le.rpm libpq-debugsource-13.5-1.el8.ppc64le.rpm libpq-devel-13.5-1.el8.ppc64le.rpm libpq-devel-debuginfo-13.5-1.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: libpq-13.5-1.el8.s390x.rpm libpq-debuginfo-13.5-1.el8.s390x.rpm libpq-debugsource-13.5-1.el8.s390x.rpm libpq-devel-13.5-1.el8.s390x.rpm libpq-devel-debuginfo-13.5-1.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64: libpq-13.5-1.el8.i686.rpm libpq-13.5-1.el8.x86_64.rpm libpq-debuginfo-13.5-1.el8.i686.rpm libpq-debuginfo-13.5-1.el8.x86_64.rpm libpq-debugsource-13.5-1.el8.i686.rpm libpq-debugsource-13.5-1.el8.x86_64.rpm libpq-devel-13.5-1.el8.i686.rpm libpq-devel-13.5-1.el8.x86_64.rpm libpq-devel-debuginfo-13.5-1.el8.i686.rpm libpq-devel-debuginfo-13.5-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:1891-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1891
Issue date: 2022-05-10

Topic

An update for libpq 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 Enterprise Linux low severity security impact PostgreSQL man-in-the-middle libpq

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

2022675 - CVE-2021-23222 postgresql: libpq processes unencrypted bytes from man-in-the-middle

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