10 - RHSA-2019:3222

Problem Description:

An update for systemd is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Extended Update Support.

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 Enterprise Linux ComputeNode EUS (v. 7.6) - x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional EUS (v. 7.6) - x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.6) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional EUS (v. 7.6) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

3. Description:

The systemd packages contain systemd, a system and service manager for Linux, compatible with the SysV and LSB init scripts. It provides aggressive parallelism capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, and keeps track of processes using Linux cgroups. In addition, it supports snapshotting and restoring of the system state, maintains mount and automount points, and implements an elaborate transactional dependency-based service control logic. It can also work as a drop-in replacement for sysvinit.

Security Fix(es):

* systemd: line splitting via fgets() allows for state injection during daemon-reexec (CVE-2018-15686)

* systemd: out-of-bounds read when parsing a crafted syslog message (CVE-2018-16866)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Bug Fix(es):

* Layered slices are left in a "dead" state if slices are stopped that have child slices underneath (BZ#1729227)

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/):

1639071 - CVE-2018-15686 systemd: line splitting via fgets() allows for state injection during daemon-reexec 1653867 - CVE-2018-16866 systemd: out-of-bounds read when parsing a crafted syslog message 1729227 - Layered slices are left in a "dead" state if slices are stopped that have child slices underneath [rhel-7.6.z]