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Rocky Linux 8 RLSA-2024:1719 Moderate Rear Security Issue

Moderate: rear security update. {"type": "TYPE_SECURITY", "shortCode": "RL", "name": "RLSA-2024:1719", "synopsis": "Moderate: rear security update", "severity": "SEVERITY_MODERATE", "topic": "An update is available for rear.\nThis update affects Rocky Linux 8.\nA Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list", "description": "Relax-and-Recover is a recovery and system migration utility. The utility produces a bootable image and restores from backup using this image. It allows to restore to different hardware and can therefore be also used as a migration utility.\n\nSecurity Fix(es):\n\n* rear: creates a world-readable initrd (CVE-2024-23301)\n\nFor 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.", "solution": null, "affectedProducts": ["Rocky Linux 8"], "fixes": [{"ticket": "2258396", "sourceBy": "Red Hat", "sourceLink": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2258396", "description": ""}], "cves": [{"name": "CVE-2024-23301", "sourceBy": "MITRE", "sourceLink": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-23301", "cvss3ScoringVector": "UNKNOWN", "cvss3BaseScore": "UNKNOWN", "cwe": "UNKNOWN"}], "references": [], "publishedAt": "2024-05-06T13:04:21.002456Z", "rpms": {"Rocky Linux 8": {"nvras": ["rear-0:2.6-11.el8_9.aarch64.rpm", "rear-0:2.6-11.el8_9.src.rpm", "rear-0:2.6-11.el8_9.x86_64.rpm"]}}, "rebootSuggested": false, "buildReferences": []}. Rocky Linux 8 rolls out an essential security patch addressing relax-and-recover, affecting system settings and restoration utilities.. Rocky Linux,rsa updates,system recovery,vulnerability fixes. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

May 06, 2024 Rocky Linux