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Red Hat: RHSA-2023-3179 Critical: libxml2 Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey May 17, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Keep your system secure on Red Hat Enterprise Linux by promptly applying the essential apr-util security patch to address out-of-bounds write vulnerabilities
An update for apr-util is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support

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

Applications using the APR libraries, such as httpd, must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Summary

The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) is a portability library used by the Apache HTTP Server and other projects. apr-util is a library which provides additional utility interfaces for APR; including support for XML parsing, LDAP, database interfaces, URI parsing, and more.
Security Fix(es):
* apr-util: out-of-bounds writes in the apr_base64 (CVE-2022-25147)
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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory update red hat important apr-util out-of-bounds linux enterprise

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-25147 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6):
Source: apr-util-1.6.1-6.el8_6.1.src.rpm
aarch64: apr-util-1.6.1-6.el8_6.1.aarch64.rpm apr-util-bdb-1.6.1-6.el8_6.1.aarch64.rpm apr-util-bdb-debuginfo-1.6.1-6.el8_6.1.aarch64.rpm apr-util-debuginfo-1.6.1-6.el8_6.1.aarch64.rpm apr-util-debugsource-1.6.1-6.el8_6.1.aarch64.rpm apr-util-devel-1.6.1-6.el8_6.1.aarch64.rpm apr-util-ldap-1.6.1-6.el8_6.1.aarch64.rpm apr-util-ldap-debuginfo-1.6.1-6.el8_6.1.aarch64.rpm apr-util-mysql-1.6.1-6.el8_6.1.aarch64.rpm apr-util-mysql-debuginfo-1.6.1-6.el8_6.1.aarch64.rpm apr-util-odbc-1.6.1-6.el8_6.1.aarch64.rpm apr-util-odbc-debuginfo-1.6.1-6.el8_6.1.aarch64.rpm apr-util-openssl-1.6.1-6.el8_6.1.aarch64.rpm apr-util-openssl-debuginfo-1.6.1-6.el8_6.1.aarch64.rpm apr-util-pgsql-1.6.1-6.el8_6.1.aarch64.rpm apr-util-pgsql-debuginfo-1.6.1-6.el8_6.1.aarch64.rpm apr-util-sqlite-1.6.1-6.el8_6.1.aarch64.rpm apr-util-sqlite-debuginfo-1.6.1-6.el8_6.1.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: apr-util-1.6.1-6.el8_6.1.ppc64le.rpm apr-util-bdb-1.6.1-6.el8_6.1.ppc64le.rpm apr-util-bdb-debuginfo-1.6.1-6.el8_6.1.ppc64le.rpm apr-util-debuginfo-1.6.1-6.el8_6.1.ppc64le.rpm apr-util-debugsource-1.6.1-6.el8_6.1.ppc64le.rpm apr-util-devel-1.6.1-6.el8_6.1.ppc64le.rpm apr-util-ldap-1.6.1-6.el8_6.1.ppc64le.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:3178-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:3178
Issue date: 2023-05-17

Topic

An update for apr-util is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6Extended Update Support.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory update red hat important apr-util out-of-bounds linux enterprise

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2169652 - CVE-2022-25147 apr-util: out-of-bounds writes in the apr_base64

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