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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: RHSA-2023-4706 Important Authorization Issue

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Calendar Grey August 22, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Ubuntu announced a significant security patch for snapd to address insufficient privilege management vulnerabilities. Learn more about this update.
An update for subscription-manager 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

The subscription-manager packages provide programs and libraries to allow users to manage subscriptions and yum repositories from the Red Hat entitlement platform.
Security Fix(es):
* subscription-manager: inadequate authorization of com.redhat.RHSM1 D-Bus interface allows local users to modify configuration (CVE-2023-3899)
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 Red Hat update important authorization issue subscription-manager

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3899 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
aarch64: dnf-plugin-subscription-manager-debuginfo-1.28.36-3.el8_8.aarch64.rpm python3-subscription-manager-rhsm-debuginfo-1.28.36-3.el8_8.aarch64.rpm rhsm-gtk-1.28.36-3.el8_8.aarch64.rpm subscription-manager-debuginfo-1.28.36-3.el8_8.aarch64.rpm subscription-manager-debugsource-1.28.36-3.el8_8.aarch64.rpm subscription-manager-initial-setup-addon-1.28.36-3.el8_8.aarch64.rpm subscription-manager-migration-1.28.36-3.el8_8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: dnf-plugin-subscription-manager-debuginfo-1.28.36-3.el8_8.ppc64le.rpm python3-subscription-manager-rhsm-debuginfo-1.28.36-3.el8_8.ppc64le.rpm rhsm-gtk-1.28.36-3.el8_8.ppc64le.rpm subscription-manager-debuginfo-1.28.36-3.el8_8.ppc64le.rpm subscription-manager-debugsource-1.28.36-3.el8_8.ppc64le.rpm subscription-manager-initial-setup-addon-1.28.36-3.el8_8.ppc64le.rpm subscription-manager-migration-1.28.36-3.el8_8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: dnf-plugin-subscription-manager-debuginfo-1.28.36-3.el8_8.s390x.rpm python3-subscription-manager-rhsm-debuginfo-1.28.36-3.el8_8.s390x.rpm rhsm-gtk-1.28.36-3.el8_8.s390x.rpm subscription-manager-debuginfo-1.28.36-3.el8_8.s390x.rpm subscription-manager-debugsource-1.28.36-3.el8_8.s390x.rpm subscription-manager-initial-setup-addon-1.28.36-3.el8_8.s390x.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:4706-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:4706
Issue date: 2023-08-22

Topic

An update for subscription-manager is now available for Red Hat EnterpriseLinux 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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat update important authorization issue subscription-manager

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

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

Bugs Fixed

2225407 - CVE-2023-3899 subscription-manager: inadequate authorization of com.redhat.RHSM1 D-Bus interface allows local users to modify configuration

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