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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RHSA-2022:1898-01 Moderate: Fapolicyd Bug Fix

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Calendar Grey May 10, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Incremental fapolicyd enhancement for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, focusing on security improvements and bug resolutions. Find more information within.
An update for fapolicyd 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

Fapolicyd (File Access Policy Daemon) implements application whitelisting to decide file access rights. Applications that are known via a reputation source are allowed access while unknown applications are not. The daemon makes use of the kernel's fanotify interface to determine file access rights.
The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: fapolicyd (1.1). (BZ#1939379)
Security Fix(es):
* fapolicyd: fapolicyd wrongly prepares ld.so path (CVE-2022-1117)
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 bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux moderate severity fapolicyd issue file access policy

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-1117 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.6_release_notes/

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: fapolicyd-1.1-6.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: fapolicyd-1.1-6.el8.aarch64.rpm fapolicyd-debuginfo-1.1-6.el8.aarch64.rpm fapolicyd-debugsource-1.1-6.el8.aarch64.rpm
noarch: fapolicyd-selinux-1.1-6.el8.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: fapolicyd-1.1-6.el8.ppc64le.rpm fapolicyd-debuginfo-1.1-6.el8.ppc64le.rpm fapolicyd-debugsource-1.1-6.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: fapolicyd-1.1-6.el8.s390x.rpm fapolicyd-debuginfo-1.1-6.el8.s390x.rpm fapolicyd-debugsource-1.1-6.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64: fapolicyd-1.1-6.el8.x86_64.rpm fapolicyd-debuginfo-1.1-6.el8.x86_64.rpm fapolicyd-debugsource-1.1-6.el8.x86_64.rpm
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:1898-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1898
Issue date: 2022-05-10

Topic

An update for fapolicyd 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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux moderate severity fapolicyd issue file access policy

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

1939379 - Rebase FAPOLICYD to the latest upstream version

1989272 - ftype of libc.so is wrongly identified as application/x-executable

1997414 - fapolicyd-dnf-plugin reports as '' in plugins list

2014445 - SELinux DSP module is wrongly defined in SPEC

2051485 - fapolicyd prevents yum from updating the system if it is update as well

2054741 - Introduce rules.d feature

2066300 - Fapolicyd denies access to /usr/lib64/ld-2.28.so

2068171 - CVE-2022-1117 fapolicyd: fapolicyd wrongly prepares ld.so path

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