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A prometheus-jmx-exporter security update has been released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.



RHSA-2020:4807-01: Moderate: prometheus-jmx-exporter security update



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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Moderate: prometheus-jmx-exporter security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:4807-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL:   https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4807
Issue date: 2020-11-03
CVE Names: CVE-2017-18640
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1. Summary:

An update for prometheus-jmx-exporter 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 AppStream (v. 8) - noarch

3. Description:

Prometheus JMX Exporter is a JMX to Prometheus exporter: a collector that
can be configured to scrape and expose MBeans of a JMX target.

Security Fix(es):

* snakeyaml: Billion laughs attack via alias feature (CVE-2017-18640)

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 8.3 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/):

1785376 - CVE-2017-18640 snakeyaml: Billion laughs attack via alias feature

6. Package List:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):

Source:
prometheus-jmx-exporter-0.12.0-6.el8.src.rpm

noarch:
prometheus-jmx-exporter-0.12.0-6.el8.noarch.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
  https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/

7. References:

  https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-18640
  https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
  https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.3_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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