Oval Definition:oval:com.redhat.rhsa:def:20211627
Revision Date:2021-05-18Version:637
Title:RHSA-2021:1627: trousers security, bug fix, and enhancement update (Moderate)
Description:TrouSerS is an implementation of the Trusted Computing Group's Software Stack (TSS) specification. TrouSerS enables the user to write applications that make use of the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) hardware.

  • The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: trousers (0.3.15). (BZ#1725782)

    Security Fix(es):

  • trousers: tss user still has read and write access to the /etc/tcsd.conf file if tcsd is started as root (CVE-2020-24331)

  • trousers: tss user can be used to create or corrupt existing files, this could lead to DoS (CVE-2020-24332)

  • trousers: fails to drop the root gid privilege when no longer needed (CVE-2020-24330)

    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 8.4 Release Notes linked from the References section.
  • Family:unixClass:patch
    Status:Reference(s):CVE-2020-24330
    CVE-2020-24331
    CVE-2020-24332
    RHSA-2021:1627
    Platform(s):Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
    Product(s):
    Definition Synopsis
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux must be installed
  • OR Package Information
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 is installed
  • OR Red Hat CoreOS 4 is installed
  • AND
  • trousers is earlier than 0:0.3.15-1.el8
  • AND trousers is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • trousers-devel is earlier than 0:0.3.15-1.el8
  • AND trousers-devel is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • trousers-lib is earlier than 0:0.3.15-1.el8
  • AND trousers-lib is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
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