RHSA-2020:3869 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: pcp security, bug fix, and enhancement update

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 7

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · September 30, 2020

Updated · June 25, 2026

Topic

An update for pcp 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

Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) is a suite of tools, services, and libraries for acquisition, archiving, and analysis of system-level performance measurements. Its light-weight distributed architecture makes it particularly well-suited to centralized analysis of complex systems.

Security Fix(es):

  • pcp: Local privilege escalation in pcp spec file %post section (CVE-2019-3695)

  • pcp: Local privilege escalation in pcp spec file through migrate_tempdirs (CVE-2019-3696)

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 7.9 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2020:3869 — Red Hat Security Advisory: pcp security, bug fix, and enhancement update | PulseLinux