RHSA-2021:2459 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for gupnp is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Extended Update Support.

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

GUPnP is an object-oriented open source framework for creating UPnP devices and control points, written in C using GObject and libsoup. The GUPnP API is intended to be easy to use, efficient and flexible.

Security Fix(es):

• gupnp: allows DNS rebinding which could result in tricking browser into triggering actions against local UPnP services (CVE-2021-33516)

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 for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.1 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.1 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.1 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.1 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.1 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.1 ppc64le
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.1 s390x
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.1 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 1964091 - CVE-2021-33516 gupnp: allows DNS rebinding which could result in tricking browser into triggering actions against local UPnP services

CVEs

• CVE-2021-33516

References

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