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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 RHSA-2023:4571-01 Critical: Iperf3 Crash

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Calendar Grey August 8, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Notice: iperf3 security patch for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Addresses memory management vulnerability.
An update for iperf3 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

Iperf is a tool which can measure maximum TCP bandwidth and tune various parameters and UDP characteristics. Iperf reports bandwidth, delay jitter, and data-gram loss.
Security Fix(es):
* iperf3: memory allocation hazard and crash (CVE-2023-38403)
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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue Red Hat Enterprise Linux important crash memory hazard iperf3

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-38403 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9):
Source: iperf3-3.9-10.el9_2.src.rpm
aarch64: iperf3-3.9-10.el9_2.aarch64.rpm iperf3-debuginfo-3.9-10.el9_2.aarch64.rpm iperf3-debugsource-3.9-10.el9_2.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: iperf3-3.9-10.el9_2.ppc64le.rpm iperf3-debuginfo-3.9-10.el9_2.ppc64le.rpm iperf3-debugsource-3.9-10.el9_2.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: iperf3-3.9-10.el9_2.s390x.rpm iperf3-debuginfo-3.9-10.el9_2.s390x.rpm iperf3-debugsource-3.9-10.el9_2.s390x.rpm
x86_64: iperf3-3.9-10.el9_2.i686.rpm iperf3-3.9-10.el9_2.x86_64.rpm iperf3-debuginfo-3.9-10.el9_2.i686.rpm iperf3-debuginfo-3.9-10.el9_2.x86_64.rpm iperf3-debugsource-3.9-10.el9_2.i686.rpm iperf3-debugsource-3.9-10.el9_2.x86_64.rpm
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:4571-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:4571
Issue date: 2023-08-08

Topic

An update for iperf3 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.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 issue Red Hat Enterprise Linux important crash memory hazard iperf3

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

2222204 - CVE-2023-38403 iperf3: memory allocation hazard and crash

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