QID 239329

Date Published: 2021-05-20

QID 239329: Red Hat Update for p11-kit (RHSA-2021:1609)

The p11-kit packages provide a mechanism to manage PKCS#11 modules. The p11-kit-trust subpackage includes a PKCS#11 trust module that provides certificate anchors and black lists based on configuration files.The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: p11-kit (0.23.22). (BZ#1887853)

Security Fix(es): p11-kit: integer overflow when allocating memory for arrays or attributes and object identifiers (CVE-2020-29361) p11-kit: out-of-bounds read in p11_rpc_buffer_get_byte_array function in rpc-message.c (CVE-2020-29362) p11-kit: out-of-bounds write in p11_rpc_buffer_get_byte_array_value function in rpc-message.c (CVE-2020-29363)

Affected Products:

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

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 - 7.5 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as Medium - 5 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-2021:1609 to address this issue and obtain more information.

    Vendor References

    CVEs related to QID 239329

    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    RHSA-2021:1609 Red Hat Enterprise Linux URL Logo access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1609?language=en