A libqb security and bug fix update has been released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Moderate: libqb security and bug fix update Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:3610-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3610 Issue date: 2019-11-05
CVE Names: CVE-2019-12779
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1. Summary:

An update for libqb is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
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.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64
3. Description:

The libqb packages provide a library with the primary purpose of providing high performance client/server reusable features, such as high performance logging, tracing, inter-process communication, and polling.
Security Fix(es):

* libqb: Insecure treatment of IPC (temporary) files (CVE-2019-12779)
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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Release Notes linked from the References section.
4. 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

5. Bugs fixed ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

1695948 - CVE-2019-12779 libqb: Insecure treatment of IPC (temporary) files 1718773 - Avoid libqb deadlock due to not using selected socket poll priority

6. Package List:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8):

Source:
libqb-1.0.3-10.el8.src.rpm

aarch64:
libqb-1.0.3-10.el8.aarch64.rpm
libqb-debuginfo-1.0.3-10.el8.aarch64.rpm
libqb-debugsource-1.0.3-10.el8.aarch64.rpm
libqb-devel-1.0.3-10.el8.aarch64.rpm
libqb-tests-debuginfo-1.0.3-10.el8.aarch64.rpm

ppc64le:
libqb-1.0.3-10.el8.ppc64le.rpm
libqb-debuginfo-1.0.3-10.el8.ppc64le.rpm
libqb-debugsource-1.0.3-10.el8.ppc64le.rpm
libqb-devel-1.0.3-10.el8.ppc64le.rpm
libqb-tests-debuginfo-1.0.3-10.el8.ppc64le.rpm

s390x:
libqb-1.0.3-10.el8.s390x.rpm
libqb-debuginfo-1.0.3-10.el8.s390x.rpm
libqb-debugsource-1.0.3-10.el8.s390x.rpm
libqb-devel-1.0.3-10.el8.s390x.rpm
libqb-tests-debuginfo-1.0.3-10.el8.s390x.rpm

x86_64:
libqb-1.0.3-10.el8.i686.rpm
libqb-1.0.3-10.el8.x86_64.rpm
libqb-debuginfo-1.0.3-10.el8.i686.rpm
libqb-debuginfo-1.0.3-10.el8.x86_64.rpm
libqb-debugsource-1.0.3-10.el8.i686.rpm
libqb-debugsource-1.0.3-10.el8.x86_64.rpm
libqb-devel-1.0.3-10.el8.i686.rpm
libqb-devel-1.0.3-10.el8.x86_64.rpm
libqb-tests-debuginfo-1.0.3-10.el8.i686.rpm
libqb-tests-debuginfo-1.0.3-10.el8.x86_64.rpm

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https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/

7. References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-12779
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.1_release_notes/

8. Contact:

The Red Hat security contact is . More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
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