Red Hat alert RHSA-2024:0582-01 (rpm) [LWN.net]

An update for rpm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 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. The RPM Package Manager (RPM) is a command-line driven package management system capable of installing, uninstalling, verifying, querying, and updating software packages. Security Fix(es): * rpm: TOCTOU race in checks for unsafe symlinks (CVE-2021-35937) * rpm: races with chown/chmod/capabilities calls during installation (CVE-2021-35938) * rpm: checks for unsafe symlinks are not performed for intermediary directories (CVE-2021-35939) 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. This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original.

Original: https://access.redhat.com/security/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2024/rhsa-2024_0582.json