RHSA-2024:5294 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for jose 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

Jose is a C-language implementation of the Javascript Object Signing and Encryption standards. The jose package is a dependency of the clevis and tang packages, together providing Network Bound Disk Encryption (NBDE) in Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Security Fix(es):

• jose: resource exhaustion (CVE-2024-28176)
• jose: Denial of service due to uncontrolled CPU consumption (CVE-2023-50967)

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 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2268820 - CVE-2024-28176 jose: resource exhaustion
• BZ - 2270538 - CVE-2023-50967 jose: Denial of service due to uncontrolled CPU consumption

CVEs

• CVE-2023-50967
• CVE-2024-28176

References

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