Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 vulnerabilities
1,038 known vulnerabilities in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 from Red Hat. 1,038 are rated high or critical, and 6 have 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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- 7.8 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Advanced Update…: Improper Control of Generation of Code
A flaw was found in the libreswan client plugin for NetworkManager (NetkworkManager-libreswan), where it fails to properly sanitize the VPN configuration from the local unprivileged user. In this configuration, composed by a key-value format, the plugin fails
- 8.2 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: Improper Link Resolution Before File Access
A flaw was found in Go. When FIPS mode is enabled on a system, container runtimes may incorrectly handle certain file paths due to improper validation in the containers/common Go library. This flaw allows an attacker to exploit symbolic links and trick the sys
- 7.5 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
A flaw was found in Aardvark-dns, which is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack due to the serial processing of TCP DNS queries. An attacker can exploit this flaw by keeping a TCP connection open indefinitely, causing the server to become unresponsive and
- 7.5 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: Exposure of Data Element to Wrong Session
A flaw was found in the gnome-remote-desktop package. The gnome-remote-desktop system daemon performs inadequate validation of session agents using D-Bus methods related to transitioning a client connection from the login screen to the user session. As a resul
- 7.5 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: NULL Pointer Dereference
A null pointer dereference flaw was found in Libtiff via `tif_dirinfo.c`. This issue may allow an attacker to trigger memory allocation failures through certain means, such as restricting the heap space size or injecting faults, causing a segmentation fault. T
- 7.5 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: Improper Synchronization
A flaw was found in the QEMU NBD Server. This vulnerability allows a denial of service (DoS) attack via improper synchronization during socket closure when a client keeps a socket open as the server is taken offline.
- 7.4 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: Improper Certificate Validation
A flaw was found in libnbd. The client did not always correctly verify the NBD server's certificate when using TLS to connect to an NBD server. This issue allows a man-in-the-middle attack on NBD traffic.
- 7.0 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: Improper Control of Generation of Code
A flaw was found in the GTK library. Under certain conditions, it is possible for a library to be injected into a GTK application from the current working directory.
- 7.0 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9: Signal Handler Race Condition
A race condition vulnerability was discovered in how signals are handled by OpenSSH's server (sshd). If a remote attacker does not authenticate within a set time period, then sshd's SIGALRM handler is called asynchronously. However, this signal handler calls v
- 7.8 High severity
Advanced Virtualization for RHEL 8.2.1: Out-of-bounds Write
A flaw was found in the QEMU disk image utility (qemu-img) 'info' command. A specially crafted image file containing a `json:{}` value describing block devices in QMP could cause the qemu-img process on the host to consume large amounts of memory or CPU time,
- 8.1 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization
A security regression (CVE-2006-5051) was discovered in OpenSSH's server (sshd). There is a race condition which can lead sshd to handle some signals in an unsafe manner. An unauthenticated, remote attacker may be able to trigger it by failing to authenticate
- 7.5 High severity
A flaw was found in the Poppler's Pdfinfo utility.
A flaw was found in the Poppler's Pdfinfo utility. This issue occurs when using -dests parameter with pdfinfo utility. By using certain malformed input files, an attacker could cause the utility to crash, leading to a denial of service.
- 8.1 High severity
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory
A flaw was found in cri-o. A malicious container can create a symbolic link to arbitrary files on the host via directory traversal (“../“). This flaw allows the container to read and write to arbitrary files on the host system.
- 8.1 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7: Use of Password Hash With Insufficient Computational Effort
A vulnerability was found in FreeIPA in a way when a Kerberos TGS-REQ is encrypted using the client’s session key. This key is different for each new session, which protects it from brute force attacks. However, the ticket it contains is encrypted using the ta
- 8.8 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: Incorrect Authorization
A vulnerability was found in FreeIPA in how the initial implementation of MS-SFU by MIT Kerberos was missing a condition for granting the "forwardable" flag on S4U2Self tickets. Fixing this mistake required adding a special case for the check_allowed_to_delega
- 7.5 High severity
Red Hat Certificate System 10.4 EUS for RHEL-8: Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness
A flaw was found in dogtag-pki and pki-core. The token authentication scheme can be bypassed with a LDAP injection. By passing the query string parameter sessionID=*, an attacker can authenticate with an existing session saved in the LDAP directory server, whi
- 8.1 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input
A vulnerability was found in libndp. This flaw allows a local malicious user to cause a buffer overflow in NetworkManager, triggered by sending a malformed IPv6 router advertisement packet. This issue occurred as libndp was not correctly validating the route l
- 7.5 High severity
A flaw was found in 389-ds-base. A specially-crafted LDAP query can potentially cause a…
A flaw was found in 389-ds-base. A specially-crafted LDAP query can potentially cause a failure on the directory server, leading to a denial of service
- 8.3 High severity
OADP-1.3-RHEL-9: Improper Validation of Integrity Check Value
A flaw was found in the github.com/containers/image library. This flaw allows attackers to trigger unexpected authenticated registry accesses on behalf of a victim user, causing resource exhaustion, local path traversal, and other attacks.
- 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.
- 8.2 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: Double Free
A double free vulnerability was found in QEMU virtio devices (virtio-gpu, virtio-serial-bus, virtio-crypto), where the mem_reentrancy_guard flag insufficiently protects against DMA reentrancy issues. This issue could allow a malicious privileged guest user to
- 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 10: Buffer Over-read
A heap-based buffer over-read vulnerability was found in the X.org server's ProcAppleDRICreatePixmap() function. This issue occurs when byte-swapped length values are used in replies, potentially leading to memory leakage and segmentation faults, particularly
- 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
- 10.0 Critical severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: Embedded Malicious Code
Malicious code was discovered in the upstream tarballs of xz, starting with version 5.6.0. Through a series of complex obfuscations, the liblzma build process extracts a prebuilt object file from a disguised test file existing in the source code, which is then
- 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
- 7.3 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command
A flaw was found in Cockpit. Deleting a sosreport with a crafted name via the Cockpit web interface can lead to a command injection vulnerability, resulting in privilege escalation. This issue affects Cockpit versions 270 and newer.
- 7.5 High severity
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for…: Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
A memory leak flaw was found in Golang in the RSA encrypting/decrypting code, which might lead to a resource exhaustion vulnerability using attacker-controlled inputs. The memory leak happens in github.com/golang-fips/openssl/openssl/rsa.go#L113. The objects
- 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
- 7.5 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7: Double Free
A double-free vulnerability was found in libdwarf. In a multiply-corrupted DWARF object, libdwarf may try to dealloc(free) an allocation twice, potentially causing unpredictable and various results.
- 7.8 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6: Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset
An out-of-bounds stack write flaw was found in unixODBC on 64-bit architectures where the caller has 4 bytes and callee writes 8 bytes. This issue may go unnoticed on little-endian architectures, while big-endian architectures can be broken.
- 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
- 7.5 High severity
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2: Observable Discrepancy
A flaw was found in the python-cryptography package. This issue may allow a remote attacker to decrypt captured messages in TLS servers that use RSA key exchanges, which may lead to exposure of confidential or sensitive data.