Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support vulnerabilities
43 known vulnerabilities in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support from Red Hat. 43 are rated high or critical, and 1 has been exploited in real attacks. Each entry lists the affected versions and the release that fixes it, where the vendor has published one.
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- 7.1 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization
A race condition flaw was found in sssd where the GPO policy is not consistently applied for authenticated users. This may lead to improper authorization issues, granting or denying access to resources inappropriately.
- 7.8 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Extended Lifecycle…: Use After Free
A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the ProcRenderAddGlyphs() function of Xorg servers. This issue occurs when AllocateGlyph() is called to store new glyphs sent by the client to the X server, potentially resulting in multiple entries pointing to the s
- 7.3 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Extended Lifecycle…: Buffer Over-read
A heap-based buffer over-read vulnerability was found in the X.org server's ProcXIPassiveGrabDevice() function. This issue occurs when byte-swapped length values are used in replies, potentially leading to memory leakage and segmentation faults, particularly w
- 7.3 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Extended Lifecycle…: Buffer Over-read
A heap-based buffer over-read vulnerability was found in the X.org server's ProcXIGetSelectedEvents() function. This issue occurs when byte-swapped length values are used in replies, potentially leading to memory leakage and segmentation faults, particularly w
- 8.8 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere
A flaw was found in PCP. The default pmproxy configuration exposes the Redis server backend to the local network, allowing remote command execution with the privileges of the Redis user. This issue can only be exploited when pmproxy is running. By default, pmp
- 8.6 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: Improper Link Resolution Before File Access
A flaw was found in Buildah (and subsequently Podman Build) which allows containers to mount arbitrary locations on the host filesystem into build containers. A malicious Containerfile can use a dummy image with a symbolic link to the root filesystem as a moun
- 7.8 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Extended Lifecycle…: Heap-based Buffer Overflow
A heap buffer overflow flaw was found in the DisableDevice function in the X.Org server. This issue may lead to an application crash or, in some circumstances, remote code execution in SSH X11 forwarding environments.
- 7.8 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Extended Lifecycle…: Heap-based Buffer Overflow
A flaw was found in X.Org server. In the XISendDeviceHierarchyEvent function, it is possible to exceed the allocated array length when certain new device IDs are added to the xXIHierarchyInfo struct. This can trigger a heap buffer overflow condition, which may
- 7.3 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: Incorrect Default Permissions
A vulnerability was found in Unbound due to incorrect default permissions, allowing any process outside the unbound group to modify the unbound runtime configuration. If a process can connect over localhost to port 8953, it can alter the configuration of unbou
- 7.8 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Extended Lifecycle…: Out-of-bounds Write
An out-of-bounds memory access flaw was found in the X.Org server. This issue can be triggered when a device frozen by a sync grab is reattached to a different master device. This issue may lead to an application crash, local privilege escalation (if the serve
- 7.5 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: NULL Pointer Dereference
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's NVMe driver. This issue may allow an unauthenticated malicious actor to send a set of crafted TCP packages when using NVMe over TCP, leading the NVMe driver to a NULL pointer dereference in the NVMe driver, causing kernel
- 7.5 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: NULL Pointer Dereference
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's NVMe driver. This issue may allow an unauthenticated malicious actor to send a set of crafted TCP packages when using NVMe over TCP, leading the NVMe driver to a NULL pointer dereference in the NVMe driver, causing kernel
- 7.5 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: NULL Pointer Dereference
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's NVMe driver. This issue may allow an unauthenticated malicious actor to send a set of crafted TCP packages when using NVMe over TCP, leading the NVMe driver to a NULL pointer dereference in the NVMe driver and causing ker
- 8.6 High severity
runc: Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere
runc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers on Linux according to the OCI specification. In runc 1.1.11 and earlier, due to an internal file descriptor leak, an attacker could cause a newly-spawned container process (from runc exec) to have a workin
- 7.4 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7: Integer Overflow or Wraparound
A buffer overflow was found in Shim in the 32-bit system. The overflow happens due to an addition operation involving a user-controlled value parsed from the PE binary being used by Shim. This value is further used for memory allocation operations, leading to
- 8.3 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7: Origin Validation Error
A remote code execution vulnerability was found in Shim. The Shim boot support trusts attacker-controlled values when parsing an HTTP response. This flaw allows an attacker to craft a specific malicious HTTP request, leading to a completely controlled out-of-b
- 9.8 Critical severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Extended Lifecycle…: Out-of-bounds Write
A flaw was found in X.Org server. Both DeviceFocusEvent and the XIQueryPointer reply contain a bit for each logical button currently down. Buttons can be arbitrarily mapped to any value up to 255, but the X.Org Server was only allocating space for the device's
- 7.8 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: Out-of-bounds Write
An out-of-bounds memory write flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s Transport Layer Security functionality in how a user calls a function splice with a ktls socket as the destination. This flaw allows a local user to crash or potentially escalate their privileg
- 7.5 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: Observable Discrepancy
A vulnerability was found in GnuTLS. The response times to malformed ciphertexts in RSA-PSK ClientKeyExchange differ from the response times of ciphertexts with correct PKCS#1 v1.5 padding. This issue may allow a remote attacker to perform a timing side-channe
- 7.4 High severity
kernel: Integer Underflow (Wrap or Wraparound)
An out-of-bounds memory read flaw was found in receive_encrypted_standard in fs/smb/client/smb2ops.c in the SMB Client sub-component in the Linux Kernel. This issue occurs due to integer underflow on the memcpy length, leading to a denial of service.
- 7.8 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update…: Use After Free
A use-after-free flaw was found in the Linux Kernel. When a disk is removed, bdi_unregister is called to stop further write-back and waits for associated delayed work to complete. However, wb_inode_writeback_end() may schedule bandwidth estimation work after t
- 7.0 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization
A race condition was found in the GSM 0710 tty multiplexor in the Linux kernel. This issue occurs when two threads execute the GSMIOC_SETCONF ioctl on the same tty file descriptor with the gsm line discipline enabled, and can lead to a use-after-free problem o
- 7.5 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Extended Lifecycle…: Integer Overflow or Wraparound
A flaw was found in xorg-server. A specially crafted request to RRChangeProviderProperty or RRChangeOutputProperty can trigger an integer overflow which may lead to a disclosure of sensitive information.
- 7.8 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Extended Lifecycle…: Out-of-bounds Read
A flaw was found in xorg-server. Querying or changing XKB button actions such as moving from a touchpad to a mouse can result in out-of-bounds memory reads and writes. This may allow local privilege escalation or possible remote code execution in cases where X
- 8.8 High severity
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4.2: Integer Overflow or Wraparound
A flaw was found in PostgreSQL that allows authenticated database users to execute arbitrary code through missing overflow checks during SQL array value modification. This issue exists due to an integer overflow during array modification where a remote user ca
- 7.1 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: Out-of-bounds Read
An out-of-bounds read vulnerability was found in smb2_dump_detail in fs/smb/client/smb2ops.c in the Linux Kernel. This issue could allow a local attacker to crash the system or leak internal kernel information.
- 7.1 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: Out-of-bounds Read
An out-of-bounds read vulnerability was found in smbCalcSize in fs/smb/client/netmisc.c in the Linux Kernel. This issue could allow a local attacker to crash the system or leak internal kernel information.
- 9.8 Critical severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory
A path traversal vulnerability was identified in Samba when processing client pipe names connecting to Unix domain sockets within a private directory. Samba typically uses this mechanism to connect SMB clients to remote procedure call (RPC) services like SAMR
- 7.5 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions
A flaw was found in Squid. The limits applied for validation of HTTP response headers are applied before caching. However, Squid may grow a cached HTTP response header beyond the configured maximum size, causing a stall or crash of the worker process when a la
- 7.5 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Extended Lifecycle…: Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input
Squid is vulnerable to a Denial of Service, where a remote attacker can perform buffer overflow attack by writing up to 2 MB of arbitrary data to heap memory when Squid is configured to accept HTTP Digest Authentication.
- 8.8 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: Use After Free
A use-after-free vulnerability was found in drivers/nvme/target/tcp.c` in `nvmet_tcp_free_crypto` due to a logical bug in the NVMe/TCP subsystem in the Linux kernel. This issue may allow a malicious user to cause a use-after-free and double-free problem, which
- 7.8 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7: Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere
A vulnerability was found in insights-client. This security issue occurs because of insecure file operations or unsafe handling of temporary files and directories that lead to local privilege escalation. Before the insights-client has been registered on the sy
- 7.8 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Extended Lifecycle…: Out-of-bounds Write
A out-of-bounds write flaw was found in the xorg-x11-server. This issue occurs due to an incorrect calculation of a buffer offset when copying data stored in the heap in the XIChangeDeviceProperty function in Xi/xiproperty.c and in RRChangeOutputProperty funct
- 7.7 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: Protection Mechanism Failure
A flaw was found in the tracker-miners package. A weakness in the sandbox allows a maliciously-crafted file to execute code outside the sandbox if the tracker-extract process has first been compromised by a separate vulnerability.
- 7.8 High severity
GNU C Library Buffer Overflow Exploited
A buffer overflow was discovered in the GNU C Library's dynamic loader ld.so while processing the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable. This issue could allow a local attacker to use maliciously crafted GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variables when launching binari
- 7.8 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7: Out-of-bounds Write
An array indexing vulnerability was found in the netfilter subsystem of the Linux kernel. A missing macro could lead to a miscalculation of the `h->nets` array offset, providing attackers with the primitive to arbitrarily increment/decrement a memory buffer ou
- 7.8 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7: Incorrect Authorization
A vulnerability was found in subscription-manager that allows local privilege escalation due to inadequate authorization. The D-Bus interface com.redhat.RHSM1 exposes a significant number of methods to all users that could change the state of the registration.
- 8.8 High severity
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4.2: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command
IN THE EXTENSION SCRIPT, a SQL Injection vulnerability was found in PostgreSQL if it uses @extowner@, @extschema@, or @extschema:...@ inside a quoting construct (dollar quoting, '', or ""). If an administrator has installed files of a vulnerable, trusted, non-
- 7.8 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: Use After Free
A use-after-free flaw was found in the Linux kernel's netfilter in the way a user triggers the nft_pipapo_remove function with the element, without a NFT_SET_EXT_KEY_END. This issue could allow a local user to crash the system or potentially escalate their pri
- 7.8 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: Use After Free
An out-of-bounds memory access flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s TUN/TAP device driver functionality in how a user generates a malicious (too big) networking packet when napi frags is enabled. This flaw allows a local user to crash or potentially escalate t