Important: rust-toolset-1.66-rust security update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-38497  

Synopsis

Important: rust-toolset-1.66-rust security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

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Topic

An update for rust-toolset-1.66-rust is now available for Red Hat Developer Tools.

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

Rust Toolset provides the Rust programming language compiler rustc, the cargo build tool and dependency manager, and required libraries.

Security Fix(es):

  • rust-cargo: cargo does not respect the umask when extracting dependencies (CVE-2023-38497)

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

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

  • Red Hat Developer Tools (for RHEL Workstation) 1 x86_64
  • Red Hat Developer Tools (for RHEL Server) 1 x86_64
  • Red Hat Developer Tools (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 s390x
  • Red Hat Developer Tools (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Developer Tools (for RHEL Server for IBM Power) 1 ppc64

Fixes

  • BZ - 2228038 - CVE-2023-38497 rust-cargo: cargo does not respect the umask when extracting dependencies