RHSA-2020:4900 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: cryptsetup security update

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 8

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · November 4, 2020

Updated · June 25, 2026

Topic

An update for cryptsetup is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Extended Update Support.

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 cryptsetup packages provide a utility for setting up disk encryption using the dm-crypt kernel module.

Security Fix(es):

  • cryptsetup: Out-of-bounds write when validating segments (CVE-2020-14382)

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.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2020:4900 — Red Hat Security Advisory: cryptsetup security update | PulseLinux