RHSA-2023:3397 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for qatzip is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 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

QATzip is a user space library which builds on top of the Intel QuickAssist Technology user space library, to provide extended accelerated compression and decompression services by offloading the actual compression and decompression request(s) to the Intel Chipset Series. QATzip produces data using the standard gzip* format (RFC1952) with extended headers. The data can be decompressed with a compliant gzip* implementation. QATzip is designed to take full advantage of the performance provided by Intel QuickAssist Technology.

Security Fix(es):

• qatzip: local privilege escalation (CVE-2022-36369)

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.

Bug Fix(es):

• Intel QAT Update - QATzip (User Space Changes) (BZ#2178769)

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 8.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.6 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2170784 - CVE-2022-36369 qatzip: local privilege escalation

CVEs

• CVE-2022-36369

References

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