A keepalived security and bug fix update has been released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
RHSA-2022:1930-01: Moderate: keepalived security and bug fix update
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Moderate: keepalived security and bug fix update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:1930-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1930
Issue date: 2022-05-10
CVE Names: CVE-2021-44225
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1. Summary:
An update for keepalived 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) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64
3. Description:
The keepalived utility provides simple and robust facilities for load
balancing and high availability. The load balancing framework relies on the
well-known and widely used IP Virtual Server (IPVS) kernel module providing
layer-4 (transport layer) load balancing. Keepalived implements a set of
checkers to dynamically and adaptively maintain and manage a load balanced
server pool according to the health of the servers. Keepalived also
implements the Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRPv2) to achieve high
availability with director failover.
Security Fix(es):
* keepalived: dbus access control bypass (CVE-2021-44225)
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 8.6 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/):
2027156 - CVE-2021-44225 keepalived: dbus access control bypass
6. Package List:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source:
keepalived-2.1.5-8.el8.src.rpm
aarch64:
keepalived-2.1.5-8.el8.aarch64.rpm
keepalived-debuginfo-2.1.5-8.el8.aarch64.rpm
keepalived-debugsource-2.1.5-8.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le:
keepalived-2.1.5-8.el8.ppc64le.rpm
keepalived-debuginfo-2.1.5-8.el8.ppc64le.rpm
keepalived-debugsource-2.1.5-8.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x:
keepalived-2.1.5-8.el8.s390x.rpm
keepalived-debuginfo-2.1.5-8.el8.s390x.rpm
keepalived-debugsource-2.1.5-8.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64:
keepalived-2.1.5-8.el8.x86_64.rpm
keepalived-debuginfo-2.1.5-8.el8.x86_64.rpm
keepalived-debugsource-2.1.5-8.el8.x86_64.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-2021-44225
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.6_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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