RHSA-2019:2162 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: blktrace security update
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · August 6, 2019
Updated · June 25, 2026
Topic
An update for blktrace is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. 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.
Description
The blktrace packages contain a number of utilities to record the I/O trace information for the kernel to user space, and utilities to analyze and view the trace information.
Security Fix(es):
- blktrace: buffer overflow in the dev_map_read function in btt/devmap.c (CVE-2018-10689)
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 7.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.