Oval Definition:oval:com.redhat.rhsa:def:20203898
Revision Date:2020-09-29Version:637
Title:RHSA-2020:3898: cloud-init security, bug fix, and enhancement update (Moderate)
Description:The cloud-init packages provide a set of init scripts for cloud instances. Cloud instances need special scripts to run during initialization to retrieve and install SSH keys, and to let the user run various scripts.

  • The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: cloud-init (19.4). (BZ#1803094)

    Security Fix(es):

  • cloud-init: Use of random.choice when generating random password (CVE-2020-8631)

  • cloud-init: Too short random password length in cc_set_password in config/cc_set_passwords.py (CVE-2020-8632)

  • cloud-init: default configuration disabled deletion of SSH host keys (CVE-2018-10896)

    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 7.9 Release Notes linked from the References section.
  • Family:unixClass:patch
    Status:Reference(s):CVE-2018-10896
    CVE-2020-8631
    CVE-2020-8632
    RHSA-2020:3898
    Platform(s):Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
    Product(s):
    Definition Synopsis
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux must be installed
  • OR Package Information
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 is installed
  • AND cloud-init is earlier than 0:19.4-7.el7
  • AND cloud-init is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
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