RHSA-2024:6702 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for pcs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Update Services for SAP Solutions, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Telecommunications Update Service.

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 pcs packages provide a command-line configuration system for the Pacemaker and Corosync utilities.

Security Fix(es):

• rexml: rubygem-rexml: DoS when parsing an XML having many specific characters such as whitespace character, >] and ]> (CVE-2024-41123)
• rexml: DoS vulnerability in REXML (CVE-2024-41946)
• rexml: DoS vulnerability in REXML (CVE-2024-43398)

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 High Availability for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for x86_64 - Telecommunications Update Service 8.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for x86_64 - Extended Update Support Extension 8.6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2302268 - CVE-2024-41123 rexml: rubygem-rexml: DoS when parsing an XML having many specific characters such as whitespace character, >] and ]>
• BZ - 2302272 - CVE-2024-41946 rexml: DoS vulnerability in REXML
• BZ - 2307297 - CVE-2024-43398 rexml: DoS vulnerability in REXML

CVEs

• CVE-2024-41123
• CVE-2024-41946
• CVE-2024-43398

References

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