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Moderate Alert for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9: libeconf Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey August 1, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A recent security patch for CentOS includes an important fix for a moderate risk buffer overflow vulnerability. Ensure your systems are protected!
An update for libeconf 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

Libeconf is a highly flexible and configurable library to parse and manage key=value configuration files. It reads configuration file snippets from different directories and builds the final configuration file from it.
Security Fix(es):
* libeconf: stack-based buffer overflow in read_file() in lib/getfilecontents.c (CVE-2023-22652)
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 buffer overflow moderate severity security impact libeconf

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-22652 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9):
Source: libeconf-0.4.1-3.el9_2.src.rpm
aarch64: libeconf-0.4.1-3.el9_2.aarch64.rpm libeconf-debuginfo-0.4.1-3.el9_2.aarch64.rpm libeconf-debugsource-0.4.1-3.el9_2.aarch64.rpm libeconf-utils-debuginfo-0.4.1-3.el9_2.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: libeconf-0.4.1-3.el9_2.ppc64le.rpm libeconf-debuginfo-0.4.1-3.el9_2.ppc64le.rpm libeconf-debugsource-0.4.1-3.el9_2.ppc64le.rpm libeconf-utils-debuginfo-0.4.1-3.el9_2.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: libeconf-0.4.1-3.el9_2.s390x.rpm libeconf-debuginfo-0.4.1-3.el9_2.s390x.rpm libeconf-debugsource-0.4.1-3.el9_2.s390x.rpm libeconf-utils-debuginfo-0.4.1-3.el9_2.s390x.rpm
x86_64: libeconf-0.4.1-3.el9_2.i686.rpm libeconf-0.4.1-3.el9_2.x86_64.rpm libeconf-debuginfo-0.4.1-3.el9_2.i686.rpm libeconf-debuginfo-0.4.1-3.el9_2.x86_64.rpm libeconf-debugsource-0.4.1-3.el9_2.i686.rpm libeconf-debugsource-0.4.1-3.el9_2.x86_64.rpm libeconf-utils-debuginfo-0.4.1-3.el9_2.i686.rpm libeconf-utils-debuginfo-0.4.1-3.el9_2.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-2023:4347-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:4347
Issue date: 2023-08-01

Topic

An update for libeconf 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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update Red Hat buffer overflow moderate severity security impact libeconf

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

2212463 - CVE-2023-22652 libeconf: stack-based buffer overflow in read_file() in lib/getfilecontents.c

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