RHSA-2020:1189 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: libqb security update
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · April 1, 2020
Updated · June 25, 2026
Topic
An update for libqb 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.
Description
The libqb packages provide a library with the primary purpose of providing high performance client/server reusable features, such as high performance logging, tracing, inter-process communication, and polling.
Security Fix(es):
- libqb: Insecure treatment of IPC (temporary) files (CVE-2019-12779)
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 7.8 Release Notes linked from the References section.