RHSA-2024:0579 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for perl-HTTP-Tiny is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support.

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

HTTP::Tiny is a small and simple HTTP/1.1 client written in Perl.

Security Fix(es):

• http-tiny: insecure TLS cert default (CVE-2023-31486)

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 Life Cycle Long Life 8.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Life Cycle Long Life 8.8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Life Cycle Long Life 8.8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Life Cycle Long Life 8.8 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 2228392 - CVE-2023-31486 http-tiny: insecure TLS cert default
• RHEL-21762 - perl-HTTP-Tiny: man page not updated to reflect fix for CVE-2023-31486 [rhel-8.8.0.z]

CVEs

• CVE-2023-31486

References

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