RHSA-2023:6812 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for fence-agents 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

The fence-agents packages provide a collection of scripts for handling remote power management for cluster devices. They allow failed or unreachable nodes to be forcibly restarted and removed from the cluster.

Bug Fix(es) and Enhancement(s):

• python-certifi: Removal of e-Tugra root certificate (CVE-2023-37920)
• python-urllib3: Cookie request header isn't stripped during cross-origin redirects (CVE-2023-43804)

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

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability 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 Enterprise Linux High Availability for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2226586 - CVE-2023-37920 python-certifi: Removal of e-Tugra root certificate
• BZ - 2242493 - CVE-2023-43804 python-urllib3: Cookie request header isn't stripped during cross-origin redirects

CVEs

• CVE-2023-37920
• CVE-2023-43804

References

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