RHSA-2019:2162 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: blktrace security update

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 7

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.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2019:2162 — Red Hat Security Advisory: blktrace security update | PulseLinux