RHSA-2019:2290 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: libsolv security and bug fix update
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · August 6, 2019
Updated · June 27, 2026
Topic
An update for libsolv 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 libsolv packages provide a library for resolving package dependencies using a satisfiability algorithm.
Security Fix(es):
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libsolv: NULL pointer dereference in function testcase_read (CVE-2018-20532)
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libsolv: NULL pointer dereference in function testcase_str2dep_complex (CVE-2018-20533)
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libsolv: illegal address access in pool_whatprovides in src/pool.h (CVE-2018-20534)
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.