Moderate: devtoolset-8-gcc security update

Synopsis

Moderate: devtoolset-8-gcc security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update for devtoolset-8-gcc is now available for Red Hat Developer Toolset 8 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

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.

Description

The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) is a portable compiler suite with support for various programming languages, including C, C++, and Fortran. The devtoolset-8-gcc packages provide the Red Hat Developer Toolset version of GCC, as well as related libraries.

Security Fix(es):

• gcc: POWER9 "DARN" RNG intrinsic produces repeated output (CVE-2019-15847)
  

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 Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1755523 - CVE-2019-15847 gcc: POWER9 "DARN" RNG intrinsic produces repeated output

CVEs

• CVE-2019-15847

References

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