RHSA-2024:1874 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for rhc-worker-script is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

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 rhc-worker-script packages provide Remote Host Configuration (rhc) worker for executing an interpreted programming language script on hosts managed by Red Hat Insights.

Security Fix(es):

• golang-protobuf: encoding/protojson, internal/encoding/json: infinite loop in protojson.Unmarshal when unmarshaling certain forms of invalid JSON [rhc-worker-script] (CVE-2024-24786)

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.

Enhancement(s):

• Allow users to specify environment variables through the rhc-worker-script configuration file to be passed down to the scripts being executed (HMS-3843)

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 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2268046 - CVE-2024-24786 golang-protobuf: encoding/protojson, internal/encoding/json: infinite loop in protojson.Unmarshal when unmarshaling certain forms of invalid JSON
• HMS-3843 - Allow users to specify environment variables through the rhc-worker-script configuration file to be passed down to the scripts being executed

CVEs

• CVE-2024-24786

References

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