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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:2615 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2018-09-04
Updated:
2018-09-04

RHSA-2018:2615 - Security Advisory

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Synopsis

Moderate: collectd security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Red Hat Insights patch analysis

Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.

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Topic

An update for collectd is now available for Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.4 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

collectd is a host-based system statistics collection daemon that gathers metrics from various sources periodically, such as the operating system, applications, log files and devices, and storage clusters. As the daemon does not start up each time it updates files, it has a low system footprint.

For Red Hat Gluster Storage Web Administration 3.4, collectd service is responsible for gathering metrics from Red Hat Gluster Storage clusters.

The updated collectd package includes the following security bug fixes.

Security Fix(es):

  • collectd: Infinite loop due to incorrect interaction of parse_packet() and parse_part_sign_sha256() functions (CVE-2017-7401)
  • collectd: double free in csnmp_read_table function in snmp.c (CVE-2017-16820)

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.

This updated package contains a number of bug fixes and enhancements, which are documented in detail in the Release Notes, linked in the References.

All users of collectd are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve these issues.

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 Gluster Storage Server for On-premise 3 for RHEL 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Gluster Storage Web Administration (for RHEL Server) 3.1 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 1439674 - CVE-2017-7401 collectd: Infinite loop due to incorrect interaction of parse_packet() and parse_part_sign_sha256() functions
  • BZ - 1516447 - CVE-2017-16820 collectd: double free in csnmp_read_table function in snmp.c

CVEs

  • CVE-2017-7401
  • CVE-2017-16820

References

  • https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
  • https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/red_hat_gluster_storage/3.4/html/3.4_release_notes/
Note: More recent versions of these packages may be available. Click a package name for more details.

Red Hat Gluster Storage Server for On-premise 3 for RHEL 7

SRPM
collectd-5.7.2-3.1.el7rhgs.src.rpm SHA-256: d266373fdbf2e9825ecf480ec12fd21b2357c1eb2142160405bcff4b03a80f8e
x86_64
collectd-5.7.2-3.1.el7rhgs.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 5ac7185551e33ddba4625e18a3905082dc478d2d8a013c4708fb1071d42195d0
collectd-debuginfo-5.7.2-3.1.el7rhgs.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: c390bf731077b436a7d9775654fe70312b8660185837a8a6ff48b0ff6798b16b
collectd-ping-5.7.2-3.1.el7rhgs.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 59d438774dd3118ce0d99709b53e397d99db578946acc26a8a816e05372f296b
libcollectdclient-5.7.2-3.1.el7rhgs.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 63067db5360f019e1fee0d23b0f907ed0f6c2d8a42a44616a3434681d1531ab1

Red Hat Gluster Storage Web Administration (for RHEL Server) 3.1

SRPM
collectd-5.7.2-3.1.el7rhgs.src.rpm SHA-256: d266373fdbf2e9825ecf480ec12fd21b2357c1eb2142160405bcff4b03a80f8e
x86_64
collectd-5.7.2-3.1.el7rhgs.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 5ac7185551e33ddba4625e18a3905082dc478d2d8a013c4708fb1071d42195d0
collectd-debuginfo-5.7.2-3.1.el7rhgs.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: c390bf731077b436a7d9775654fe70312b8660185837a8a6ff48b0ff6798b16b
collectd-ping-5.7.2-3.1.el7rhgs.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 59d438774dd3118ce0d99709b53e397d99db578946acc26a8a816e05372f296b
libcollectdclient-5.7.2-3.1.el7rhgs.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 63067db5360f019e1fee0d23b0f907ed0f6c2d8a42a44616a3434681d1531ab1

The Red Hat security contact is secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.

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