RHSA-2020:5003 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: fence-agents security and bug fix update
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
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):
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fence_lpar: Long username, HMC hostname, or managed system name causes failures [RHEL 7] (BZ#1860545)
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InstanceHA does not evacuate instances created with private flavor in tenant project (RHEL7) (BZ#1862024)