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Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-3397-01
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-3397-01 - QATzip is a user space library which builds on top of the Intel QuickAssist Technology user space library, to provide extended accelerated compression and decompression services by offloading the actual compression and decompression request to the Intel Chipset Series. Issues addressed include a privilege escalation vulnerability.
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Important: qatzip security and bug fix update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:3397-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:3397
Issue date: 2023-05-31
CVE Names: CVE-2022-36369
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- Summary:
An update for qatzip is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6
Extended Update Support.
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.
- Relevant releases/architectures:
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder EUS (v.8.6) - x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6) - x86_64
- Description:
QATzip is a user space library which builds on top of the Intel QuickAssist
Technology user space library, to provide extended accelerated compression
and decompression services by offloading the actual compression and
decompression request(s) to the Intel Chipset Series. QATzip produces data
using the standard gzip* format (RFC1952) with extended headers. The data
can be decompressed with a compliant gzip* implementation. QATzip is
designed to take full advantage of the performance provided by Intel
QuickAssist Technology.
Security Fix(es):
- qatzip: local privilege escalation (CVE-2022-36369)
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.
Bug Fix(es):
- Intel QAT Update - QATzip (User Space Changes) (BZ#2178769)
- 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
- Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
2170784 - CVE-2022-36369 qatzip: local privilege escalation
- Package List:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6):
Source:
qatzip-1.1.2-1.el8_6.src.rpm
x86_64:
qatzip-1.1.2-1.el8_6.x86_64.rpm
qatzip-debuginfo-1.1.2-1.el8_6.x86_64.rpm
qatzip-debugsource-1.1.2-1.el8_6.x86_64.rpm
qatzip-libs-1.1.2-1.el8_6.x86_64.rpm
qatzip-libs-debuginfo-1.1.2-1.el8_6.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder EUS (v.8.6):
x86_64:
qatzip-debuginfo-1.1.2-1.el8_6.x86_64.rpm
qatzip-debugsource-1.1.2-1.el8_6.x86_64.rpm
qatzip-devel-1.1.2-1.el8_6.x86_64.rpm
qatzip-libs-debuginfo-1.1.2-1.el8_6.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/
- References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-36369
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
- 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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