RHSA-2019:3898 - Security Advisory

Topic

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

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

Libcomps is library for structure-like manipulation with content of comps XML files. Supports read/write XML file, structure(s) modification.

Security Fix(es):

• libcomps: use after free when merging two objmrtrees (CVE-2019-3817)

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.

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, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1668005 - CVE-2019-3817 libcomps: use after free when merging two objmrtrees

CVEs

• CVE-2019-3817

References

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