RHBA-2023:4046 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 container images are now available

Description

The Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 container images have been updated to address the following security advisory: RHSA-2023:4039 (see References)

Users of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 container images are advised to upgrade to these updated images, which contain backported patches to correct these security issues, fix these bugs and add these enhancements. Users of these images are also encouraged to rebuild all container images that depend on these images.

You can find images updated by this advisory in Red Hat Container Catalog (see References).

Solution

The Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 container images provided by this update can be downloaded from the Red Hat Container Registry at registry.access.redhat.com. Installation instructions for your platform are available at Red Hat Container Catalog (see References).

Dockerfiles and scripts should be amended either to refer to this new image specifically, or to the latest image generally.

Affected Products

• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7 s390x
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 2209494 - CVE-2023-31124 c-ares: AutoTools does not set CARES_RANDOM_FILE during cross compilation
• BZ - 2209497 - CVE-2023-31130 c-ares: Buffer Underwrite in ares_inet_net_pton()
• BZ - 2209501 - CVE-2023-31147 c-ares: Insufficient randomness in generation of DNS query IDs
• BZ - 2209502 - CVE-2023-32067 c-ares: 0-byte UDP payload Denial of Service

CVEs

• CVE-2023-31124
• CVE-2023-31130
• CVE-2023-31147
• CVE-2023-32067

References

• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:4039
• https://access.redhat.com/containers