RHBA-2019:2050 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An update for gssproxy is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

The gssproxy packages provide a daemon to manage access to GSSAPI credentials, as well as a GSSAPI interposer plug-in.

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Users of gssproxy are advised to upgrade to these updated packages.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1542567 - gssproxy: service doesn't start when /var/lib is read-only (due to read-only root)
• BZ - 1618375 - rpc.gssd memory use grows unbounded when user accesses krb5 mount without having kerberos credentials
• BZ - 1687899 - gssproxy thread may block indefinitely inside epoll_wait() due to race with a second thread closing gpmctx->epollfd
• BZ - 1699331 - gssproxy segmentation fault

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.7_release_notes/index