Issued:
2024-04-18
Updated:
2024-04-18

RHSA-2024:1874 - Moderate: rhc-worker-script security and enhancement update

Synopsis

Moderate: rhc-worker-script security and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

An update for rhc-worker-script is now available 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.

Description

The rhc-worker-script packages provide Remote Host Configuration (rhc) worker for executing an interpreted programming language script on hosts managed by Red Hat Insights.

Security Fix(es):

  • golang-protobuf: encoding/protojson, internal/encoding/json: infinite loop in protojson.Unmarshal when unmarshaling certain forms of invalid JSON [rhc-worker-script] (CVE-2024-24786)

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.

Enhancement(s):

  • Allow users to specify environment variables through the rhc-worker-script configuration file to be passed down to the scripts being executed (HMS-3843)

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 Scientific Computing7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop7x86_64

Updated Packages

  • rhc-worker-script-0.7-1.el7_9.src.rpm
  • rhc-worker-script-0.7-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information