RHSA-2024:0647MediumCVSS 6.5

Red Hat Security Advisory: rpm security update

Published
February 1, 2024
Last Modified
November 6, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (3)

CVE-2021-35939 →CVE-2021-35937 →CVE-2021-35938 →

📋 Description

CVE-2021-35937 — rpm: TOCTOU race in checks for unsafe symlinks CVE-2021-35938 — rpm: races with chown/chmod/capabilities calls during installation CVE-2021-35939 — rpm: checks for unsafe symlinks are not performed for intermediary directories

🎯 Affected products186

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • python3-rpm-0:4.14.3-28.el8_9.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • python3-rpm-0:4.14.3-28.el8_9.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • python3-rpm-0:4.14.3-28.el8_9.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • python3-rpm-0:4.14.3-28.el8_9.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • python3-rpm-debuginfo-0:4.14.3-28.el8_9.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • python3-rpm-debuginfo-0:4.14.3-28.el8_9.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • python3-rpm-debuginfo-0:4.14.3-28.el8_9.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • python3-rpm-debuginfo-0:4.14.3-28.el8_9.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • python3-rpm-debuginfo-0:4.14.3-28.el8_9.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • python3-rpm-debuginfo-0:4.14.3-28.el8_9.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • python3-rpm-debuginfo-0:4.14.3-28.el8_9.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • python3-rpm-debuginfo-0:4.14.3-28.el8_9.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • python3-rpm-debuginfo-0:4.14.3-28.el8_9.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • rpm-0:4.14.3-28.el8_9.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • rpm-0:4.14.3-28.el8_9.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • rpm-0:4.14.3-28.el8_9.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • rpm-0:4.14.3-28.el8_9.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • rpm-0:4.14.3-28.el8_9.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • rpm-apidocs-0:4.14.3-28.el8_9.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • rpm-build-0:4.14.3-28.el8_9.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • rpm-build-0:4.14.3-28.el8_9.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • rpm-build-0:4.14.3-28.el8_9.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • rpm-build-0:4.14.3-28.el8_9.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • rpm-build-debuginfo-0:4.14.3-28.el8_9.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • rpm-build-debuginfo-0:4.14.3-28.el8_9.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • rpm-build-debuginfo-0:4.14.3-28.el8_9.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • rpm-build-debuginfo-0:4.14.3-28.el8_9.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • rpm-build-debuginfo-0:4.14.3-28.el8_9.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • +156 more not shown

✅ Remediation

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 All running applications linked against the RPM library must be restarted for this update to take effect. Workaround: Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.

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