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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 RHSA-2022:8100 Low: swtpm Security Update

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Calendar Grey November 15, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A new version of swtpm has been released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, featuring minor security patches and additional information included.
An update for swtpm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

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

SWTPM is a TPM emulator built on libtpms providing TPM functionality for QEMU VMs.
Security Fix(es):
* swtpm: Unchecked header size indicator against expected size (CVE-2022-23645)
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 9.1 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux low impact swtpm CVE-2022-23645

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-23645 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#low https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/9.1_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9):
Source: swtpm-0.7.0-3.20211109gitb79fd91.el9.src.rpm
aarch64: swtpm-0.7.0-3.20211109gitb79fd91.el9.aarch64.rpm swtpm-debuginfo-0.7.0-3.20211109gitb79fd91.el9.aarch64.rpm swtpm-debugsource-0.7.0-3.20211109gitb79fd91.el9.aarch64.rpm swtpm-libs-0.7.0-3.20211109gitb79fd91.el9.aarch64.rpm swtpm-libs-debuginfo-0.7.0-3.20211109gitb79fd91.el9.aarch64.rpm swtpm-tools-0.7.0-3.20211109gitb79fd91.el9.aarch64.rpm swtpm-tools-debuginfo-0.7.0-3.20211109gitb79fd91.el9.aarch64.rpm
s390x: swtpm-0.7.0-3.20211109gitb79fd91.el9.s390x.rpm swtpm-debuginfo-0.7.0-3.20211109gitb79fd91.el9.s390x.rpm swtpm-debugsource-0.7.0-3.20211109gitb79fd91.el9.s390x.rpm swtpm-libs-0.7.0-3.20211109gitb79fd91.el9.s390x.rpm swtpm-libs-debuginfo-0.7.0-3.20211109gitb79fd91.el9.s390x.rpm swtpm-tools-0.7.0-3.20211109gitb79fd91.el9.s390x.rpm swtpm-tools-debuginfo-0.7.0-3.20211109gitb79fd91.el9.s390x.rpm
x86_64: swtpm-0.7.0-3.20211109gitb79fd91.el9.x86_64.rpm swtpm-debuginfo-0.7.0-3.20211109gitb79fd91.el9.x86_64.rpm swtpm-debugsource-0.7.0-3.20211109gitb79fd91.el9.x86_64.rpm swtpm-libs-0.7.0-3.20211109gitb79fd91.el9.x86_64.rpm swtpm-libs-debuginfo-0.7.0-3.20211109gitb79fd91.el9.x86_64.rpm swtpm-tools-0.7.0-3.20211109gitb79fd91.el9.x86_64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:8100-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:8100
Issue date: 2022-11-15

Topic

An update for swtpm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.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 security update bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux low impact swtpm CVE-2022-23645

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) - aarch64, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2056491 - CVE-2022-23645 swtpm: Unchecked header size indicator against expected size

2090219 - Not able to install windows 11 OS with vTPM in spec (disable FIPS)

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