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RHSA-2021:2236: Red Hat Security Advisory: polkit security update

An update for polkit is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 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.The polkit packages provide a component for controlling system-wide privileges. This component provides a uniform and organized way for non-privileged processes to communicate with privileged ones. Security Fix(es): * polkit: local privilege escalation using polkit_system_bus_name_get_creds_sync() (CVE-2021-3560) 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. Related CVEs: * CVE-2021-3560: polkit: local privilege escalation using polkit_system_bus_name_get_creds_sync()

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RHSA-2021:2214: Red Hat Security Advisory: firefox security update

An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 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. [Updated 8 June 2021] Previously, this erratum was marked as having a security impact of Critical. This was incorrect; the security impact of this erratum has been changed to Important, to correctly reflect the highest impact rating of CVE fixes included in this release. No changes have been made to packages.Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance, and portability. This update upgrades Firefox to version 78.11.0 ESR. Security Fix(es): * Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 89 and Firefox ESR 78.11 (CVE-2021-29967) For more details about the security issue(s), inclu...

RHSA-2021:2204: Red Hat Security Advisory: glib2 security update

An update for glib2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 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.GLib provides the core application building blocks for libraries and applications written in C. It provides the core object system used in GNOME, the main loop implementation, and a large set of utility functions for strings and common data structures. Security Fix(es): * glib: integer overflow in g_bytes_new function on 64-bit platforms due to an implicit cast from 64 bits to 32 bits (CVE-2021-27219) 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. Related CVEs: * CVE-2021-27219: glib: inte...

RHSA-2021:2206: Red Hat Security Advisory: firefox security update

An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. 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. [Updated 8 June 2021] Previously, this erratum was marked as having a security impact of Critical. This was incorrect; the security impact of this erratum has been changed to Important, to correctly reflect the highest impact rating of CVE fixes included in this release. No changes have been made to packages.Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance, and portability. This update upgrades Firefox to version 78.11.0 ESR. Security Fix(es): * Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 89 and Firefox ESR 78.11 (CVE-2021-29967) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS sc...

RHSA-2021:2208: Red Hat Security Advisory: firefox security update

An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 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. [Updated 8 June 2021] Previously, this erratum was marked as having a security impact of Critical. This was incorrect; the security impact of this erratum has been changed to Important, to correctly reflect the highest impact rating of CVE fixes included in this release. No changes have been made to packages.Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance, and portability. This update upgrades Firefox to version 78.11.0 ESR. Security Fix(es): * Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 89 and Firefox ESR 78.11 (CVE-2021-29967) For more details about the security issue(s), inclu...

RHSA-2021:2203: Red Hat Security Advisory: glib2 security update

An update for glib2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 Advanced 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.GLib provides the core application building blocks for libraries and applications written in C. It provides the core object system used in GNOME, the main loop implementation, and a large set of utility functions for strings and common data structures. Security Fix(es): * glib: integer overflow in g_bytes_new function on 64-bit platforms due to an implicit cast from 64 bits to 32 bits (CVE-2021-27219) 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. Related CVEs: * CVE-2021-27219: glib: inte...

RHSA-2021:2205: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 (openvswitch) security update

An update for openvswitch is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton). 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.Open vSwitch provides standard network bridging functions and support for the OpenFlow protocol for remote per-flow control of traffic. Security Fix(es): * buffer overflow in the lldp_decode function in daemon/protocols/lldp.c (CVE-2015-8011) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page listed in the References section. Related CVEs: * CVE-2015-8011: lldpd: buffer overflow in the lldp_decode function in daemon/protocols/lldp.c

RHSA-2021:2210: Red Hat Security Advisory: EAP XP 1 security update to CVE fixes in the EAP 7.3.x base

This advisory resolves CVE issues filed against XP1 releases that have been fixed in the underlying EAP 7.3.x base. There are no changes to the EAP XP1 code base. NOTE: This advisory is informational only. There are no code changes associated with it. No action is required. 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.These are CVE issues filed against XP1 releases that have been fixed in the underlying EAP 7.3.x base, so no changes to the EAP XP1 code base. Security Fix(es): * velocity: arbitrary code execution when attacker is able to modify templates (CVE-2020-13936) * bouncycastle: password bypass in OpenBSDBCrypt.checkPassword utility possible (CVE-2020-28052) * jboss-remoting: Threads hold up forever in the EJB server by suppressing the ack from an EJB client (...

RHSA-2021:2184: Red Hat Security Advisory: perl security update

An update for perl is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update Support. 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.Perl is a high-level programming language that is commonly used for system administration utilities and web programming. Security Fix(es): * perl: corruption of intermediate language state of compiled regular expression due to recursive S_study_chunk() calls leads to DoS (CVE-2020-12723) 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. Related CVEs: * CVE-2020-12723: perl: corruption of intermediate language state of compiled regular expression due to recursive S_study_chunk() calls leads to D...

RHSA-2021:2185: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 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.The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fix(es): * kernel: use after free in eventpoll.c may lead to escalation of privilege (CVE-2020-0466) * kernel: Integer overflow in Intel(R) Graphics Drivers (CVE-2020-12362) * kernel: SCSI target (LIO) write to any block on ILO backstore (CVE-2020-28374) * kernel: DoS by corrupting mountpoint reference counter (CVE-2020-12114) 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): * RHEL8.3...