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Red Hat 9: RHSA-2022-8393 Moderate: logrotate DoS Threat Fix

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Calendar Grey November 15, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
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An update for logrotate 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

The logrotate utility simplifies the administration of multiple log files by allowing their automatic rotation, compression, removal, and mailing.
Security Fix(es):
* logrotate: potential DoS from unprivileged users via the state file (CVE-2022-1348)
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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update Red Hat DoS logrotate

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-1348 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/9.1_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9):
Source: logrotate-3.18.0-7.el9.src.rpm
aarch64: logrotate-3.18.0-7.el9.aarch64.rpm logrotate-debuginfo-3.18.0-7.el9.aarch64.rpm logrotate-debugsource-3.18.0-7.el9.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: logrotate-3.18.0-7.el9.ppc64le.rpm logrotate-debuginfo-3.18.0-7.el9.ppc64le.rpm logrotate-debugsource-3.18.0-7.el9.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: logrotate-3.18.0-7.el9.s390x.rpm logrotate-debuginfo-3.18.0-7.el9.s390x.rpm logrotate-debugsource-3.18.0-7.el9.s390x.rpm
x86_64: logrotate-3.18.0-7.el9.x86_64.rpm logrotate-debuginfo-3.18.0-7.el9.x86_64.rpm logrotate-debugsource-3.18.0-7.el9.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/


Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:8393-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:8393
Issue date: 2022-11-15

Topic

An update for logrotate is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.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 Red Hat DoS logrotate

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2075074 - CVE-2022-1348 logrotate: potential DoS from unprivileged users via the state file

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