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RHEL 8 RHSA-2023-4635-01 Important: Rust Toolset Cargo Issue

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Calendar Grey August 14, 2023
Scroller Redhat
Significant rust-toolset enhancement for RHEL 8 addresses critical security flaws; delve deeper into cargo-associated concerns.
An update for the rust-toolset:rhel8 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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

Rust Toolset provides the Rust programming language compiler rustc, the cargo build tool and dependency manager, and required libraries.
Security Fix(es):
* rust-cargo: cargo does not respect the umask when extracting dependencies (CVE-2023-38497)
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 issue Red Hat important RHEL rust-toolset cargo extraction

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-38497 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: rust-1.66.1-2.module+el8.8.0+19613+f0bba33b.src.rpm
aarch64: cargo-1.66.1-2.module+el8.8.0+19613+f0bba33b.aarch64.rpm cargo-debuginfo-1.66.1-2.module+el8.8.0+19613+f0bba33b.aarch64.rpm clippy-1.66.1-2.module+el8.8.0+19613+f0bba33b.aarch64.rpm clippy-debuginfo-1.66.1-2.module+el8.8.0+19613+f0bba33b.aarch64.rpm rust-1.66.1-2.module+el8.8.0+19613+f0bba33b.aarch64.rpm rust-analysis-1.66.1-2.module+el8.8.0+19613+f0bba33b.aarch64.rpm rust-analyzer-1.66.1-2.module+el8.8.0+19613+f0bba33b.aarch64.rpm rust-analyzer-debuginfo-1.66.1-2.module+el8.8.0+19613+f0bba33b.aarch64.rpm rust-debuginfo-1.66.1-2.module+el8.8.0+19613+f0bba33b.aarch64.rpm rust-debugsource-1.66.1-2.module+el8.8.0+19613+f0bba33b.aarch64.rpm rust-doc-1.66.1-2.module+el8.8.0+19613+f0bba33b.aarch64.rpm rust-std-static-1.66.1-2.module+el8.8.0+19613+f0bba33b.aarch64.rpm rust-std-static-wasm32-unknown-unknown-1.66.1-2.module+el8.8.0+19613+f0bba33b.aarch64.rpm rust-std-static-wasm32-wasi-1.66.1-2.module+el8.8.0+19613+f0bba33b.aarch64.rpm rust-toolset-1.66.1-2.module+el8.8.0+19613+f0bba33b.aarch64.rpm rustfmt-1.66.1-2.module+el8.8.0+19613+f0bba33b.aarch64.rpm rustfmt-debuginfo-1.66.1-2.module+el8.8.0+19613+f0bba33b.aarch64.rpm
noarch:

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:4635-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:4635
Issue date: 2023-08-14

Topic

An update for the rust-toolset:rhel8 module is now available for Red HatEnterprise Linux 8.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 important RHEL rust-toolset cargo extraction

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2228038 - CVE-2023-38497 rust-cargo: cargo does not respect the umask when extracting dependencies

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