RHSA-2024:9185 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for iperf3 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

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

Iperf is a tool which can measure maximum TCP bandwidth and tune various parameters and UDP characteristics. Iperf reports bandwidth, delay jitter, and data-gram loss.

Security Fix(es):

• iperf3: possible denial of service (CVE-2023-7250,ESNET-SECADV-2023-0002)
• iperf3: vulnerable to marvin attack if the authentication option is used (CVE-2024-26306)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5 Release Notes linked from 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 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 9 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 9 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2244707 - CVE-2023-7250 iperf3: possible denial of service
• BZ - 2270270 - CVE-2024-26306 iperf3: vulnerable to marvin attack if the authentication option is used

CVEs

• CVE-2023-7250
• CVE-2024-26306

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/9.5_release_notes/index