Critical: librelp security update

Synopsis

Critical: librelp security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Critical

Topic

An update for librelp is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 Telco Extended Update Support, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. 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

Librelp is an easy-to-use library for the Reliable Event Logging Protocol (RELP) protocol. RELP is a general-purpose, extensible logging protocol.

Security Fix(es):

• librelp: Stack-based buffer overflow in relpTcpChkPeerName function in src/tcp.c (CVE-2018-1000140)
  

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Red Hat would like to thank Rainer Gerhards (rsyslog) for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Bas van Schaik (lgtm.com / Semmle) and Kevin Backhouse (lgtm.com / Semmle) as the original reporters.

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 Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.2 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1560084 - CVE-2018-1000140 librelp: Stack-based buffer overflow in relpTcpChkPeerName function in src/tcp.c

CVEs

• CVE-2018-1000140

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical