RHSA-2024:0453 — Security Advisory

An update for rpm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 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.

The RPM Package Manager (RPM) is a command-line driven package management system capable of installing, uninstalling, verifying, querying, and updating software packages.

Security Fix(es):

• rpm: TOCTOU race in checks for unsafe symlinks (CVE-2021-35937)

• rpm: races with chown/chmod/capabilities calls during installation (CVE-2021-35938)

• rpm: checks for unsafe symlinks are not performed for intermediary directories (CVE-2021-35939)

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.