RHSA-2024:2213 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: pcp security update
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · April 30, 2024
Updated · March 18, 2026
Topic
An update for pcp is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.
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
Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) is a suite of tools, services, and libraries for acquisition, archiving, and analysis of system-level performance measurements. Its light-weight distributed architecture makes it particularly well-suited to centralized analysis of complex systems.
Security Fix(es):
- pcp: unsafe use of directories allows pcp to root privilege escalation (CVE-2023-6917)
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 9.4 Release Notes linked from the References section.