Moderate: openwsman security update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2019-3833   CVE-2019-3833   CVE-2019-3833  

Synopsis

Moderate: openwsman security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update for openwsman is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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

Openwsman is a project intended to provide an open source implementation of the Web Services Management specification (WS-Management) and to expose system management information on the Linux operating system using the WS-Management protocol. WS-Management is based on a suite of web services specifications and usage requirements that cover all system management aspects.

Security Fix(es):

  • openwsman: Infinite loop in process_connection() allows denial of service (CVE-2019-3833)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 Release Notes linked from 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 Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64
  • Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 8 x86_64
  • Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
  • Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 8 aarch64
  • Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems 8 s390x

Fixes

  • BZ - 1674478 - CVE-2019-3833 openwsman: Infinite loop in process_connection() allows denial of service

CVEs

References