Synopsis

Low: patch security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Low

Topic

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

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. 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

The patch program applies diff files to originals. The diff command is used to compare an original to a changed file. Diff lists the changes made to the file. A person who has the original file can then use the patch command with the diff file to add the changes to their original file (patching the file).

Security Fix(es):

• patch: Out-of-bounds access in pch_write_line function in pch.c (CVE-2016-10713)
• patch: Double free of memory in pch.c:another_hunk() causes a crash (CVE-2018-6952)

For 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.

Additional Changes:

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

Fixes

• BZ - 1545053 - CVE-2018-6952 patch: Double free of memory in pch.c:another_hunk() causes a crash
• BZ - 1545405 - CVE-2016-10713 patch: Out-of-bounds access in pch_write_line function in pch.c
• BZ - 1626473 - rpmbuild doesn't honor "new file mode 100755" when applying patches
• BZ - 1653294 - patch: Gnulib bundled but no bundled(gnulib) provides

CVEs

• CVE-2016-10713
• CVE-2018-6952

References