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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2018.2618
Moderate: collectd security update
5 September 2018
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: collectd
Publisher: Red Hat
Operating System: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7
Impact/Access: Denial of Service -- Remote/Unauthenticated
Resolution: Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names: CVE-2017-16820 CVE-2017-7401
Reference: ESB-2017.1775
ESB-2017.1331
Original Bulletin:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2615
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Moderate: collectd security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:2615-01
Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2615
Issue date: 2018-09-04
CVE Names: CVE-2017-7401 CVE-2017-16820
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1. Summary:
An update for collectd is now available for Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.4 for
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which
gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from
the CVE link(s) in the References section.
2. Relevant releases/architectures:
Red Hat Gluster 3.4 Web Administration Node Agent on RHEL-7 - x86_64
Red Hat Gluster 3.4 Web Administration on RHEL-7 - x86_64
3. Description:
collectd is a host-based system statistics collection daemon that gathers
metrics from various sources periodically, such as the operating system,
applications, log files and devices, and storage clusters. As the daemon
does not start up each time it updates files, it has a low system
footprint.
For Red Hat Gluster Storage Web Administration 3.4, collectd service is
responsible for gathering metrics from Red Hat Gluster Storage clusters.
The updated collectd package includes the following security bug fixes.
Security Fix(es):
* collectd: Infinite loop due to incorrect interaction of parse_packet()
and parse_part_sign_sha256() functions (CVE-2017-7401)
* collectd: double free in csnmp_read_table function in snmp.c
(CVE-2017-16820)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS
score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in
the References section.
This updated package contains a number of bug fixes and enhancements, which
are documented in detail in the Release Notes, linked in the References.
All users of collectd are advised to upgrade to these updated packages,
which resolve these issues.
4. Solution:
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes
described in this advisory, refer to:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
1439674 - CVE-2017-7401 collectd: Infinite loop due to incorrect interaction of parse_packet() and parse_part_sign_sha256() functions
1516447 - CVE-2017-16820 collectd: double free in csnmp_read_table function in snmp.c
6. Package List:
Red Hat Gluster 3.4 Web Administration Node Agent on RHEL-7:
Source:
collectd-5.7.2-3.1.el7rhgs.src.rpm
x86_64:
collectd-5.7.2-3.1.el7rhgs.x86_64.rpm
collectd-debuginfo-5.7.2-3.1.el7rhgs.x86_64.rpm
collectd-ping-5.7.2-3.1.el7rhgs.x86_64.rpm
libcollectdclient-5.7.2-3.1.el7rhgs.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Gluster 3.4 Web Administration on RHEL-7:
Source:
collectd-5.7.2-3.1.el7rhgs.src.rpm
x86_64:
collectd-5.7.2-3.1.el7rhgs.x86_64.rpm
collectd-debuginfo-5.7.2-3.1.el7rhgs.x86_64.rpm
collectd-ping-5.7.2-3.1.el7rhgs.x86_64.rpm
libcollectdclient-5.7.2-3.1.el7rhgs.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/
7. References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7401
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-16820
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/red_hat_gluster_storage/3.4/html/3.4_release_notes/
8. Contact:
The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
Copyright 2018 Red Hat, Inc.
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