RHSA-2020:4508 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: libsolv security, bug fix, and enhancement update
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · November 4, 2020
Updated · November 22, 2025
Topic
An update for libsolv is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
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 libsolv packages provide a library for resolving package dependencies using a satisfiability algorithm.
The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: libsolv (0.7.11). (BZ#1809106)
Security Fix(es):
- libsolv: out-of-bounds read in repodata_schema2id in repodata.c (CVE-2019-20387)
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.