RHSA-2018:2225 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for fluentd is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0 Operational Tools for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Fluentd is an open source data collector designed to scale and simplify log management. It can collect, process and ship many kinds of data in near real-time.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: fluentd (0.12.41). (BZ#1552379)

Security Fix(es):

• fluentd: Escape sequence injection in filter_parser.rb:filter_stream can lead to arbitrary command execution when processing logs (CVE-2017-10906)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenStack 13 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1524783 - CVE-2017-10906 fluentd: Escape sequence injection in filter_parser.rb:filter_stream can lead to arbitrary command execution when processing logs

CVEs

• CVE-2017-10906

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate