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Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-4570-01

Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-4570-01 - 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.

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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Important: iperf3 security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:4570-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:4570
Issue date: 2023-08-08
CVE Names: CVE-2023-38403
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  1. Summary:

An update for iperf3 is now available 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.

  1. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

  1. 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: memory allocation hazard and crash (CVE-2023-38403)

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.

  1. 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

  1. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

2222204 - CVE-2023-38403 iperf3: memory allocation hazard and crash

  1. Package List:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):

Source:
iperf3-3.5-7.el8_8.src.rpm

aarch64:
iperf3-3.5-7.el8_8.aarch64.rpm
iperf3-debuginfo-3.5-7.el8_8.aarch64.rpm
iperf3-debugsource-3.5-7.el8_8.aarch64.rpm

ppc64le:
iperf3-3.5-7.el8_8.ppc64le.rpm
iperf3-debuginfo-3.5-7.el8_8.ppc64le.rpm
iperf3-debugsource-3.5-7.el8_8.ppc64le.rpm

s390x:
iperf3-3.5-7.el8_8.s390x.rpm
iperf3-debuginfo-3.5-7.el8_8.s390x.rpm
iperf3-debugsource-3.5-7.el8_8.s390x.rpm

x86_64:
iperf3-3.5-7.el8_8.i686.rpm
iperf3-3.5-7.el8_8.x86_64.rpm
iperf3-debuginfo-3.5-7.el8_8.i686.rpm
iperf3-debuginfo-3.5-7.el8_8.x86_64.rpm
iperf3-debugsource-3.5-7.el8_8.i686.rpm
iperf3-debugsource-3.5-7.el8_8.x86_64.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/

  1. References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-38403
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

  1. Contact:

The Red Hat security contact is [email protected]. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

Copyright 2023 Red Hat, Inc.
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