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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 RHSA-2023-3660-01 Important DoS Threat

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Calendar Grey June 19, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Oracle has issued a crucial security patch for libxyz in Oracle Linux 7.9, remedying vulnerabilities related to buffer overflow threats.
An update for c-ares is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Telecommunications Update Service, and Red Hat Enterpri...

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 c-ares C library defines asynchronous DNS (Domain Name System) requests and provides name resolving API.
Security Fix(es):
* c-ares: 0-byte UDP payload Denial of Service (CVE-2023-32067)
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 security update Red Hat Enterprise Linux important DoS threat Denial of Service c-ares

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-32067 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v. 8.2):
Source: c-ares-1.13.0-5.el8_2.1.src.rpm
aarch64: c-ares-1.13.0-5.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm c-ares-debuginfo-1.13.0-5.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm c-ares-debugsource-1.13.0-5.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm c-ares-devel-1.13.0-5.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: c-ares-1.13.0-5.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm c-ares-debuginfo-1.13.0-5.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm c-ares-debugsource-1.13.0-5.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm c-ares-devel-1.13.0-5.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: c-ares-1.13.0-5.el8_2.1.s390x.rpm c-ares-debuginfo-1.13.0-5.el8_2.1.s390x.rpm c-ares-debugsource-1.13.0-5.el8_2.1.s390x.rpm c-ares-devel-1.13.0-5.el8_2.1.s390x.rpm
x86_64: c-ares-1.13.0-5.el8_2.1.i686.rpm c-ares-1.13.0-5.el8_2.1.x86_64.rpm c-ares-debuginfo-1.13.0-5.el8_2.1.i686.rpm c-ares-debuginfo-1.13.0-5.el8_2.1.x86_64.rpm c-ares-debugsource-1.13.0-5.el8_2.1.i686.rpm c-ares-debugsource-1.13.0-5.el8_2.1.x86_64.rpm c-ares-devel-1.13.0-5.el8_2.1.i686.rpm c-ares-devel-1.13.0-5.el8_2.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.2):
Source: c-ares-1.13.0-5.el8_2.1.src.rpm
aarch64: c-ares-1.13.0-5.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm c-ares-debuginfo-1.13.0-5.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm c-ares-debugsource-1.13.0-5.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm c-ares-devel-1.13.0-5.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: c-ares-1.13.0-5.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:3660-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:3660
Issue date: 2023-06-19

Topic

An update for c-ares is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 TelecommunicationsUpdate Service, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Update Services for SAPSolutions.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 security update Red Hat Enterprise Linux important DoS threat Denial of Service c-ares

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v. 8.2) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.2) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS TUS (v. 8.2) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2209502 - CVE-2023-32067 c-ares: 0-byte UDP payload Denial of Service

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