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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 RHSA-2023:4708-01 Critical Security Flaw

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Calendar Grey August 22, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Critical subscription-manager patch released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 to mitigate security authorization issues.
An update for subscription-manager 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

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 critical Red Hat Enterprise Linux important local attack 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 BaseOS (v. 9):
Source: subscription-manager-1.29.33.1-2.el9_2.src.rpm
aarch64: libdnf-plugin-subscription-manager-1.29.33.1-2.el9_2.aarch64.rpm libdnf-plugin-subscription-manager-debuginfo-1.29.33.1-2.el9_2.aarch64.rpm python3-cloud-what-1.29.33.1-2.el9_2.aarch64.rpm python3-subscription-manager-rhsm-1.29.33.1-2.el9_2.aarch64.rpm python3-subscription-manager-rhsm-debuginfo-1.29.33.1-2.el9_2.aarch64.rpm subscription-manager-1.29.33.1-2.el9_2.aarch64.rpm subscription-manager-debuginfo-1.29.33.1-2.el9_2.aarch64.rpm subscription-manager-debugsource-1.29.33.1-2.el9_2.aarch64.rpm subscription-manager-plugin-ostree-1.29.33.1-2.el9_2.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: libdnf-plugin-subscription-manager-1.29.33.1-2.el9_2.ppc64le.rpm libdnf-plugin-subscription-manager-debuginfo-1.29.33.1-2.el9_2.ppc64le.rpm python3-cloud-what-1.29.33.1-2.el9_2.ppc64le.rpm python3-subscription-manager-rhsm-1.29.33.1-2.el9_2.ppc64le.rpm python3-subscription-manager-rhsm-debuginfo-1.29.33.1-2.el9_2.ppc64le.rpm subscription-manager-1.29.33.1-2.el9_2.ppc64le.rpm subscription-manager-debuginfo-1.29.33.1-2.el9_2.ppc64le.rpm subscription-manager-debugsource-1.29.33.1-2.el9_2.ppc64le.rpm subscription-manager-plugin-ostree-1.29.33.1-2.el9_2.ppc64le.rpm
s390x:

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:4708-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:4708
Issue date: 2023-08-22

Topic

An update for subscription-manager is now available for Red Hat EnterpriseLinux 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 critical Red Hat Enterprise Linux important local attack authorization issue subscription manager

Relevant Releases Architectures

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