Moderate: fence-agents security update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-37920   CVE-2023-43804  

Synopsis

Moderate: fence-agents security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

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Topic

An update for fence-agents is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support.

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-certifi: Removal of e-Tugra root certificate (CVE-2023-37920)
  • python-urllib3: Cookie request header isn't stripped during cross-origin redirects (CVE-2023-43804)

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 Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.8 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.8 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.8 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.8 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.8 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage for IBM Power LE - Extended Update Support 8.8 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability (for IBM Power LE) - Extended Update Support 8.8 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.8 aarch64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability (for IBM z Systems) - Extended Update Support 8.8 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability (for ARM 64) - Extended Update Support 8.8 aarch64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.8 s390x

Fixes

  • BZ - 2226586 - CVE-2023-37920 python-certifi: Removal of e-Tugra root certificate
  • BZ - 2242493 - CVE-2023-43804 python-urllib3: Cookie request header isn't stripped during cross-origin redirects