RHSA-2022:1898 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for fapolicyd is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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

Fapolicyd (File Access Policy Daemon) implements application whitelisting to decide file access rights. Applications that are known via a reputation source are allowed access while unknown applications are not. The daemon makes use of the kernel's fanotify interface to determine file access rights.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: fapolicyd (1.1). (BZ#1939379)

Security Fix(es):

• fapolicyd: fapolicyd wrongly prepares ld.so path (CVE-2022-1117)

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 8.6 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 for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.6 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1939379 - Rebase FAPOLICYD to the latest upstream version
• BZ - 1989272 - ftype of libc.so is wrongly identified as application/x-executable
• BZ - 1997414 - fapolicyd-dnf-plugin reports as '<invalid>' in plugins list
• BZ - 2014445 - SELinux DSP module is wrongly defined in SPEC
• BZ - 2051485 - fapolicyd prevents yum from updating the system if it is update as well
• BZ - 2054741 - Introduce rules.d feature
• BZ - 2066300 - Fapolicyd denies access to /usr/lib64/ld-2.28.so
• BZ - 2068171 - CVE-2022-1117 fapolicyd: fapolicyd wrongly prepares ld.so path

CVEs

• CVE-2022-1117

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.6_release_notes/