Issued:
2024-05-30
Updated:
2024-05-30

RHSA-2024:3486 - Moderate: gdisk security update

Synopsis

Moderate: gdisk security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

An update for gdisk is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 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.

Description

The gdisk packages provide the gdisk partitioning utility for GUID Partition Table (GPT) disks. The utility features a command-line interface similar to fdisk, direct manipulation of partition table structures, recovery tools to deal with corrupt partition tables, and the ability to convert Master Boot Record (MBR) disks to the GPT format.

Security Fix(es):

  • gdisk: possible out-of-bounds-write in LoadPartitionTable of gpt.cc (CVE-2020-0256)

  • gdisk: possible out-of-bounds-write in ReadLogicalParts of basicmbr.cc (CVE-2021-0308)

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.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions8.6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support8.6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support Extension8.6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support8.6ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support8.6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support8.6aarch64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions8.6ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS8.6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS8.6x86_64

Updated Packages

  • gdisk-1.0.3-9.el8_6.1.ppc64le.rpm
  • gdisk-debuginfo-1.0.3-9.el8_6.1.s390x.rpm
  • gdisk-debugsource-1.0.3-9.el8_6.1.aarch64.rpm
  • gdisk-debugsource-1.0.3-9.el8_6.1.ppc64le.rpm
  • gdisk-debugsource-1.0.3-9.el8_6.1.s390x.rpm
  • gdisk-debuginfo-1.0.3-9.el8_6.1.x86_64.rpm
  • gdisk-1.0.3-9.el8_6.1.x86_64.rpm
  • gdisk-debuginfo-1.0.3-9.el8_6.1.aarch64.rpm
  • gdisk-debuginfo-1.0.3-9.el8_6.1.ppc64le.rpm
  • gdisk-debugsource-1.0.3-9.el8_6.1.x86_64.rpm
  • gdisk-1.0.3-9.el8_6.1.s390x.rpm
  • gdisk-1.0.3-9.el8_6.1.aarch64.rpm
  • gdisk-1.0.3-9.el8_6.1.src.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information