RHSA-2019:2290 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: libsolv security and bug fix update

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 7

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):

  • libsolv: NULL pointer dereference in function testcase_read (CVE-2018-20532)

  • libsolv: NULL pointer dereference in function testcase_str2dep_complex (CVE-2018-20533)

  • 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.

Related CVEs

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