Red Hat Updates
1871Warning Date
Severity Level
Warning Number
Target Sector
4 March, 2021
● High
2021-2568
All
Description:
Red Hat has released security updates to address several vulnerabilities in the following products:
- Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management 2.0.8
- Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.0 for RHEL 8 x86_64
- Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.0 for RHEL 7 x86_64
- java-1.8.0-ibm
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
Threats:
Attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities by doing the following:
- Escalation of privilege
- Buffer overflow
- Execute arbitrary code
Best practice and Recommendations:
The CERT team encourages users to review Red Hat security advisory and apply the necessary updates: