Moderate: fence-agents security and bug fix update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-36087  

Synopsis

Moderate: fence-agents security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

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Topic

An update for fence-agents is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

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 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-oauthlib: DoS when attacker provides malicious IPV6 URI (CVE-2022-36087)

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 9.2 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 - Extended Update Support 9.2 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 9.2 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 9 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 9 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 9.2 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for x86_64 9 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 9.2 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage for x86_64 9 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 9.2 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage for IBM z Systems 9 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for IBM z Systems 9 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage for Power, little endian 9 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage for IBM Power LE - Extended Update Support 9.2 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for Power, little endian 9 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability (for IBM Power LE) - Extended Update Support 9.2 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 9 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 9.2 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 9 aarch64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 9.2 aarch64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.2 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.2 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.2 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.2 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for ARM 64 9 aarch64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability (for IBM z Systems) - Extended Update Support 9.2 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability (for ARM 64) - Extended Update Support 9.2 aarch64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 9.2 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for ARM 64 - 4 years of updates 9.2 aarch64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for IBM z Systems - 4 years of updates 9.2 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for ARM 64 - 4 years of updates 9.2 aarch64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for IBM z Systems - 4 years of updates 9.2 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage for x86_64 - 4 years of updates 9.2 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage for Power LE - 4 years of updates 9.2 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage for IBM z Systems - 4 years of updates 9.2 s390x

Fixes

  • BZ - 2111998 - fence_ibm_vpc: Add an authentication token caching mechanism (save token in session for configurable interval) (RHEL9)
  • BZ - 2121546 - fence_azure_arm fails with 'ServicePrincipalCredentials' object has no attribute 'get_token'
  • BZ - 2128425 - CVE-2022-36087 python-oauthlib: DoS when attacker provides malicious IPV6 URI
  • BZ - 2132008 - fence_virt: add note that reboot-action doesnt power on nodes that are powered off
  • BZ - 2134015 - fence_lpar: only output additional error output on DEBUG level
  • BZ - 2138823 - fence_virtd: add link and non-user socket example to man page (RHEL9)
  • BZ - 2144531 - fence_virtd: warn when config or key file is not mode 600, and make config file mode 600 for new installs (RHEL9)
  • BZ - 2149655 - fence_virtd: add info about using multiple uuid/ip entries for groups (RHEL9)
  • BZ - 2160480 - fence_scsi fails to validate (RHEL9)