rhsa-2016_2607
Vulnerability from csaf_redhat
Published
2016-11-03 08:13
Modified
2024-11-22 10:20
Summary
Red Hat Security Advisory: powerpc-utils-python security update

Notes

Topic
An update for powerpc-utils-python is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. 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.
Details
The powerpc-utils-python packages provide Python-based utilities for maintaining and servicing PowerPC systems. Security Fix(es): * It was found that the amsvis command of the powerpc-utils-python package did not verify unpickled data before processing it. This could allow an attacker who can connect to an amsvis server process (or cause an amsvis client process to connect to them) to execute arbitrary code as the user running the amsvis process. (CVE-2014-8165) This issue was discovered by Dhiru Kholia of Red Hat Product Security. Additional Changes: For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.
Terms of Use
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