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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0: RHSA-2023:5458-01 Critical Stack Overflow

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Calendar Grey October 5, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
An important patch for libeconf has been released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0, addressing a severe stack overflow vulnerability.
An update for libeconf is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Extended Update Support

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 overflow in function read_file at libeconf/lib/getfilecontents.c (CVE-2023-30079)
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 security fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux important stack overflow libeconf

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-30079 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.9.0):
Source: libeconf-0.4.1-3.el9_0.src.rpm
aarch64: libeconf-0.4.1-3.el9_0.aarch64.rpm libeconf-debuginfo-0.4.1-3.el9_0.aarch64.rpm libeconf-debugsource-0.4.1-3.el9_0.aarch64.rpm libeconf-utils-debuginfo-0.4.1-3.el9_0.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: libeconf-0.4.1-3.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm libeconf-debuginfo-0.4.1-3.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm libeconf-debugsource-0.4.1-3.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm libeconf-utils-debuginfo-0.4.1-3.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: libeconf-0.4.1-3.el9_0.s390x.rpm libeconf-debuginfo-0.4.1-3.el9_0.s390x.rpm libeconf-debugsource-0.4.1-3.el9_0.s390x.rpm libeconf-utils-debuginfo-0.4.1-3.el9_0.s390x.rpm
x86_64: libeconf-0.4.1-3.el9_0.i686.rpm libeconf-0.4.1-3.el9_0.x86_64.rpm libeconf-debuginfo-0.4.1-3.el9_0.i686.rpm libeconf-debuginfo-0.4.1-3.el9_0.x86_64.rpm libeconf-debugsource-0.4.1-3.el9_0.i686.rpm libeconf-debugsource-0.4.1-3.el9_0.x86_64.rpm libeconf-utils-debuginfo-0.4.1-3.el9_0.i686.rpm libeconf-utils-debuginfo-0.4.1-3.el9_0.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


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:5458-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5458
Issue date: 2023-10-05

Topic

An update for libeconf is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0Extended Update Support.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 critical security fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux important stack overflow libeconf

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.9.0) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2234595 - CVE-2023-30079 libeconf: Stack overflow in function read_file at libeconf/lib/getfilecontents.c

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