Synopsis
Low: fence-agents security and bug fix update
Type/Severity
Security Advisory: Low
Topic
An update for fence-agents is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. 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 fence-agents packages provide a collection of scripts for handling remote power management for cluster devices. They allow failed or unreachable nodes to be forcibly restarted and removed from the cluster.
Security Fix(es):
- python-httplib2: CRLF injection via an attacker controlled unescaped part of uri for httplib2.Http.request function (CVE-2020-11078)
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):
- fence_lpar: Long username, HMC hostname, or managed system name causes failures [RHEL 7] (BZ#1860545)
- InstanceHA does not evacuate instances created with private flavor in tenant project (RHEL7) (BZ#1862024)
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
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for x86_64 7 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage for x86_64 7 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
Fixes
- BZ - 1845937 - CVE-2020-11078 python-httplib2: CRLF injection via an attacker controlled unescaped part of uri for httplib2.Http.request function
- BZ - 1860545 - fence_lpar: Long username, HMC hostname, or managed system name causes failures [RHEL 7] [rhel-7.9.z]
- BZ - 1862024 - InstanceHA does not evacuate instances created with private flavor in tenant project (RHEL7)
CVEs
References
Vulmon