RHSA-2020:5003 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: fence-agents security and bug fix update

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 7

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · November 10, 2020

Updated · November 1, 2026

Topic

An update for fence-agents 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

The fence-agents packages provide a collection of scripts for handling remote power management for cluster devices. They allow failed or unreachable nodes to be forcibly restarted and removed from the cluster.

Security Fix(es):

  • python-httplib2: CRLF injection via an attacker controlled unescaped part of uri for httplib2.Http.request function (CVE-2020-11078)

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.

Bug Fix(es):

  • fence_lpar: Long username, HMC hostname, or managed system name causes failures [RHEL 7] (BZ#1860545)

  • InstanceHA does not evacuate instances created with private flavor in tenant project (RHEL7) (BZ#1862024)

Related CVEs

RHSA-2020:5003 — Red Hat Security Advisory: fence-agents security and bug fix update | PulseLinux