Red Hat Updates
1874Warning Date
Severity Level
Warning Number
Target Sector
23 December, 2020
● High
2020-2242
All
Description:
Red Hat has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities in the following products:
- Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 1.1 for RHEL 8 x86_64
- mariadb:10.3
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.2 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.2 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.2 s390x
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.2 ppc64le
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.2 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.2 aarch64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.2 ppc64le
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.2 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.1 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.1 s390x
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.1 ppc64le
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.1 aarch64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1 ppc64le
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1 x86_64
- mariadb-connector-c
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.2 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.2 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.2 s390x
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.2 ppc64le
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.2 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.2 aarch64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.2 ppc64le
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.2 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.1 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.1 s390x
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.1 ppc64le
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.1 aarch64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1 ppc64le
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.0 ppc64le
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.0 x86_64
- kernel
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.6 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.6 s390x
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.6 ppc64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.6 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.6 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.6 ppc64le
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.6 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 ppc64le
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 x86_64
- Red Hat Virtualization Host - Extended Update Support 4.2 for RHEL 7.6 x86_64
- postgresql:9.6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.0 ppc64le
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.0 x86_64
- postgresql:10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.0 ppc64le
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.0 x86_64
Threats:
Attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities by doing the following:
- Denial of service (DoS)
- Privilege escalation
- Execute arbitrary code as a root user
Best practice and Recommendations:
The CERT team encourages users to review Red Hat security advisory and apply the necessary updates:
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:5649
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:5654
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:5655
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:5656
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:5660
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:5661
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:5662
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:5664
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:5665