RHSA-2025:0880 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for tuned is now available for Fast Datapath for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of
Important. 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)

• tuned: `script_pre` and `script_post` options allow to pass arbitrary scripts executed by root (CVE-2024-52336)

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

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Fast Datapath 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Fast Datapath (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Fast Datapath (for IBM z Systems) 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Fast Datapath (for RHEL for ARM 64) 8 aarch64

Fixes

CVEs

• CVE-2024-52336
• CVE-2024-52337

References

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