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Red Hat: RHSA-2023:3397-01 Critical: qatzip Local Escalation

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Calendar Grey May 31, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Oracle publishes a significant bulletin regarding zlib that mitigates remote code execution vulnerabilities through an essential patch.
An update for qatzip 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

Summary

QATzip is a user space library which builds on top of the Intel QuickAssist Technology user space library, to provide extended accelerated compression and decompression services by offloading the actual compression and decompression request(s) to the Intel Chipset Series. QATzip produces data using the standard gzip* format (RFC1952) with extended headers. The data can be decompressed with a compliant gzip* implementation. QATzip is designed to take full advantage of the performance provided by Intel QuickAssist Technology.
Security Fix(es):
* qatzip: local privilege escalation (CVE-2022-36369)
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.
Bug Fix(es):
* Intel QAT Update - QATzip (User Space Changes) (BZ#2178769)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical local privilege escalation Red Hat Enterprise Linux qatzip

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-36369 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6):
Source: qatzip-1.1.2-1.el8_6.src.rpm
x86_64: qatzip-1.1.2-1.el8_6.x86_64.rpm qatzip-debuginfo-1.1.2-1.el8_6.x86_64.rpm qatzip-debugsource-1.1.2-1.el8_6.x86_64.rpm qatzip-libs-1.1.2-1.el8_6.x86_64.rpm qatzip-libs-debuginfo-1.1.2-1.el8_6.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder EUS (v.8.6):
x86_64: qatzip-debuginfo-1.1.2-1.el8_6.x86_64.rpm qatzip-debugsource-1.1.2-1.el8_6.x86_64.rpm qatzip-devel-1.1.2-1.el8_6.x86_64.rpm qatzip-libs-debuginfo-1.1.2-1.el8_6.x86_64.rpm
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:3397-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:3397
Issue date: 2023-05-31

Topic

An update for qatzip 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 critical local privilege escalation Red Hat Enterprise Linux qatzip

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder EUS (v.8.6) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6) - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2170784 - CVE-2022-36369 qatzip: local privilege escalation

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