QID 239250

Date Published: 2021-04-29

QID 239250: Red Hat Update for etcd (RHSA-2021:1407)

The etcd packages provide a highly available key-value store for shared configuration.

Security Fix(es): etcd: Large slice causes panic in decodeRecord method (CVE-2020-15106) etcd: DoS in wal/wal.go (CVE-2020-15112)

Affected Products:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Note: The preceding description block is extracted directly from the security advisory. Using automation, we have attempted to clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

On successful exploitation, it could allow an attacker to execute code.

  • CVSS V3 rated as High - 6.5 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as Medium - 4 severity.
  • Solution
    Upgrade to the latest packages which contain a patch. Refer to Applying Package Updates to RHEL system for details.

    Refer to Red Hat security advisory RHSA-2021:1407 to address this issue and obtain more information.

    Vendor References

    CVEs related to QID 239250

    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    RHSA-2021:1407 Red Hat Enterprise Linux URL Logo access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1407?language=en