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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2022:8850 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2022-12-07
Updated:
2022-12-07

RHSA-2022:8850 - Security Advisory

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  • Updated Packages

Synopsis

Moderate: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2.4 (python-ujson) security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Red Hat Insights patch analysis

Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.

View affected systems

Topic

An update for python-ujson is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform
16.2.4 (Train) for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.4.

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

UltraJSON is an ultra fast JSON encoder and decoder

Security Fix(es):

  • improper decoding of escaped surrogate characters may lead to string

corruption key confusion or value overwriting (CVE-2022-31116)

  • Potential double free of buffer during string decoding (CVE-2022-31117)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS
score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE
page 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 OpenStack for IBM Power 16.2 ppc64le
  • Red Hat OpenStack 16.2 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 2104739 - CVE-2022-31117 python-ujson: Potential double free of buffer during string decoding
  • BZ - 2104740 - CVE-2022-31116 python-ujson: improper decoding of escaped surrogate characters may lead to string corruption, key confusion or value overwriting

CVEs

  • CVE-2022-31116
  • CVE-2022-31117

References

  • https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
Note: More recent versions of these packages may be available. Click a package name for more details.

Red Hat OpenStack for IBM Power 16.2

SRPM
python-ujson-2.0.3-3.el8ost.src.rpm SHA-256: cbc115e99a16ebe1fed80b15b780917b84880686d6d4a3d483a65e434bf3b8c7
ppc64le
python-ujson-debugsource-2.0.3-3.el8ost.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 99f0d1c7a183d48afd72c90c3e3efc60fb9409582fae71fd563c3d5a833dceb8
python3-ujson-2.0.3-3.el8ost.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: c4d02e5997f4f68b8cde47b824df869db8bcae938e39ca7c03132d02f8f66dbe
python3-ujson-debuginfo-2.0.3-3.el8ost.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 215ae5d399a2812986636cc5ccbdbb80b0337e33446322819cb41ff29288757c

Red Hat OpenStack 16.2

SRPM
python-ujson-2.0.3-3.el8ost.src.rpm SHA-256: cbc115e99a16ebe1fed80b15b780917b84880686d6d4a3d483a65e434bf3b8c7
x86_64
python-ujson-debugsource-2.0.3-3.el8ost.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: c9df6287dd2303b930bf6032a5679ce3a4d8e66c3750d3ce00e10f007467ced2
python3-ujson-2.0.3-3.el8ost.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: b77f0a016e1fca3f313f40dcfe170b3b7c0ca8aaddcf20047feb22076d9720eb
python3-ujson-debuginfo-2.0.3-3.el8ost.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 75e94f7da3621b24f32286b92408be2ad30d9f4a5ee89f07f96368a1c1f3036b

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8

SRPM
python-ujson-2.0.3-3.el8ost.src.rpm SHA-256: cbc115e99a16ebe1fed80b15b780917b84880686d6d4a3d483a65e434bf3b8c7
x86_64
python-ujson-debugsource-2.0.3-3.el8ost.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: c9df6287dd2303b930bf6032a5679ce3a4d8e66c3750d3ce00e10f007467ced2
python3-ujson-2.0.3-3.el8ost.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: b77f0a016e1fca3f313f40dcfe170b3b7c0ca8aaddcf20047feb22076d9720eb
python3-ujson-debuginfo-2.0.3-3.el8ost.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 75e94f7da3621b24f32286b92408be2ad30d9f4a5ee89f07f96368a1c1f3036b

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

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