RHSA-2020:4436 — Security Advisory

An update for appstream-data, fwupd, gnome-software, and libxmlb is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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.

The gnome-software packages contain an application that makes it easy to add, remove, and update software in the GNOME desktop.

The appstream-data package provides the distribution specific AppStream metadata required for the GNOME and KDE software centers.

The fwupd packages provide a service that allows session software to update device firmware.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: gnome-software (3.36.1), fwupd (1.4.2).

Security Fix(es):

• fwupd: Possible bypass in signature verification (CVE-2020-10759)

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 8.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.