Issued:
2017-05-22
Updated:
2017-05-22

RHSA-2017:1263 - Important: libtirpc security update

Synopsis

Important: libtirpc security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

An update for libtirpc is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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.

Description

The libtirpc packages contain SunLib's implementation of transport-independent remote procedure call (TI-RPC) documentation, which includes a library required by programs in the nfs-utils and rpcbind packages.

Security Fix(es):

  • It was found that due to the way rpcbind uses libtirpc (libntirpc), a memory leak can occur when parsing specially crafted XDR messages. An attacker sending thousands of messages to rpcbind could cause its memory usage to grow without bound, eventually causing it to be terminated by the OOM killer. (CVE-2017-8779)

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

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions7.7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions7.6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions7.4x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions7.3x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support7.7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support7.6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support7.5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support7.4x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support7.3x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian7ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support7.7ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support7.6ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support7.5ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support7.4ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support7.3ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian7ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support7.7ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support7.6ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support7.5ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support7.4ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support7.3ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems7s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support7.7s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support7.6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support7.5s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support7.4s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support7.3s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions7.7ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions7.6ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions7.4ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions7.3ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS7.7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS7.6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS7.3x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian7ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, big endian7ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems)7s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS7.7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS7.6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS7.4x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS7.3x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node7.7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node7.6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node7.5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node7.4x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node7.3x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop7x86_64

Updated Packages

  • libtirpc-debuginfo-0.2.4-0.8.el7_3.s390.rpm
  • libtirpc-0.2.4-0.8.el7_3.ppc.rpm
  • libtirpc-0.2.4-0.8.el7_3.s390x.rpm
  • libtirpc-devel-0.2.4-0.8.el7_3.x86_64.rpm
  • libtirpc-0.2.4-0.8.el7_3.s390.rpm
  • libtirpc-0.2.4-0.8.el7_3.src.rpm
  • libtirpc-debuginfo-0.2.4-0.8.el7_3.ppc64le.rpm
  • libtirpc-debuginfo-0.2.4-0.8.el7_3.ppc64.rpm
  • libtirpc-0.2.4-0.8.el7_3.i686.rpm
  • libtirpc-devel-0.2.4-0.8.el7_3.aarch64.rpm
  • libtirpc-devel-0.2.4-0.8.el7_3.ppc.rpm
  • libtirpc-0.2.4-0.8.el7_3.aarch64.rpm
  • libtirpc-debuginfo-0.2.4-0.8.el7_3.ppc.rpm
  • libtirpc-0.2.4-0.8.el7_3.ppc64.rpm
  • libtirpc-debuginfo-0.2.4-0.8.el7_3.s390x.rpm
  • libtirpc-debuginfo-0.2.4-0.8.el7_3.x86_64.rpm
  • libtirpc-devel-0.2.4-0.8.el7_3.s390x.rpm
  • libtirpc-debuginfo-0.2.4-0.8.el7_3.i686.rpm
  • libtirpc-devel-0.2.4-0.8.el7_3.i686.rpm
  • libtirpc-0.2.4-0.8.el7_3.x86_64.rpm
  • libtirpc-devel-0.2.4-0.8.el7_3.ppc64.rpm
  • libtirpc-devel-0.2.4-0.8.el7_3.ppc64le.rpm
  • libtirpc-0.2.4-0.8.el7_3.ppc64le.rpm
  • libtirpc-devel-0.2.4-0.8.el7_3.s390.rpm
  • libtirpc-debuginfo-0.2.4-0.8.el7_3.aarch64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information