RHSA-2024:10381 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for tuned is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle 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

The tuned packages provide a service that tunes system settings according to a selected profile.

Security Fix(es):

• tuned: improper sanitization of `instance_name` parameter of the `instance_create()` method (CVE-2024-52337)

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 Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Applications for System Z - Extended Life Cycle Support 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Applications for x86_64 - Extended Life Cycle Support 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Solutions for x86_64 - Extended Life Cycle Support 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Applications for IBM Power, big endian - Extended Life Cycle Support 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Applications for IBM Power, little endian - Extended Life Cycle Support 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Solutions for IBM Power, little endian - Extended Life Cycle Support 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Real Time for x86_64 - Extended Life Cycle Support 7 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2324541 - CVE-2024-52337 tuned: improper sanitization of `instance_name` parameter of the `instance_create()` method

CVEs

• CVE-2024-52337

References

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