Red Hat Alert
2738Warning Date
Severity Level
Warning Number
Target Sector
2 February, 2022
● High
2022-4318
All
Red Hat has released security updates to address serveral vulnerabilities in the following products:
- cryptsetup
- 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
- rpm
- 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
- vim
- 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
- java-1.8.0-ibm
- 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
- kernel
- 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
- kpatch-patch
- 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
An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities by doing the following:
- Denial of service attack (DoS)
- Execute arbitrary code
The CERT team encourages users to review Red Hat security advisory and apply the necessary updates: