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Red Hat Security Advisory 2018-0252-01

Red Hat Security Advisory 2018-0252-01
Posted Jan 31, 2018
Authored by Red Hat | Site access.redhat.com

Red Hat Security Advisory 2018-0252-01 - collectd is a small C-language daemon, which reads various system metrics periodically and updates RRD files. Because the daemon does not start up each time it updates files, it has a low system footprint. Security Fix: The csnmp_read_table function in the SNMP plugin of collectd, before version 5.6.3, is susceptible to a double free in a certain error case. This could lead to a crash.

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Red Hat Security Advisory 2018-0252-01

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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Moderate: collectd security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:0252-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0252
Issue date: 2018-01-30
CVE Names: CVE-2017-16820
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1. Summary:

An update for collectd is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12.0
Operational Tools for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

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.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12.0 Operational Tools for RHEL 7 - x86_64

3. Description:

collectd is a small C-language daemon, which reads various system metrics
periodically and updates RRD files (creating them if necessary). Because
the daemon does not start up each time it updates files, it has a low
system footprint.

Security Fix(es):

* The csnmp_read_table function in the SNMP plugin of collectd, before
version 5.6.3, is susceptible to a double free in a certain error case.
This could lead to a crash. (CVE-2017-16820)

4. Solution:

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes
described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

1516447 - CVE-2017-16820 collectd: double free in csnmp_read_table function in snmp.c

6. Package List:

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12.0 Operational Tools for RHEL 7:

Source:
collectd-5.7.2-3.el7ost.src.rpm

x86_64:
collectd-5.7.2-3.el7ost.x86_64.rpm
collectd-apache-5.7.2-3.el7ost.x86_64.rpm
collectd-ascent-5.7.2-3.el7ost.x86_64.rpm
collectd-bind-5.7.2-3.el7ost.x86_64.rpm
collectd-ceph-5.7.2-3.el7ost.x86_64.rpm
collectd-curl-5.7.2-3.el7ost.x86_64.rpm
collectd-curl_json-5.7.2-3.el7ost.x86_64.rpm
collectd-curl_xml-5.7.2-3.el7ost.x86_64.rpm
collectd-dbi-5.7.2-3.el7ost.x86_64.rpm
collectd-debuginfo-5.7.2-3.el7ost.x86_64.rpm
collectd-disk-5.7.2-3.el7ost.x86_64.rpm
collectd-dns-5.7.2-3.el7ost.x86_64.rpm
collectd-drbd-5.7.2-3.el7ost.x86_64.rpm
collectd-email-5.7.2-3.el7ost.x86_64.rpm
collectd-generic-jmx-5.7.2-3.el7ost.x86_64.rpm
collectd-hugepages-5.7.2-3.el7ost.x86_64.rpm
collectd-ipmi-5.7.2-3.el7ost.x86_64.rpm
collectd-iptables-5.7.2-3.el7ost.x86_64.rpm
collectd-ipvs-5.7.2-3.el7ost.x86_64.rpm
collectd-java-5.7.2-3.el7ost.x86_64.rpm
collectd-log_logstash-5.7.2-3.el7ost.x86_64.rpm
collectd-lvm-5.7.2-3.el7ost.x86_64.rpm
collectd-mysql-5.7.2-3.el7ost.x86_64.rpm
collectd-netlink-5.7.2-3.el7ost.x86_64.rpm
collectd-nginx-5.7.2-3.el7ost.x86_64.rpm
collectd-notify_desktop-5.7.2-3.el7ost.x86_64.rpm
collectd-notify_email-5.7.2-3.el7ost.x86_64.rpm
collectd-openldap-5.7.2-3.el7ost.x86_64.rpm
collectd-ping-5.7.2-3.el7ost.x86_64.rpm
collectd-postgresql-5.7.2-3.el7ost.x86_64.rpm
collectd-rrdcached-5.7.2-3.el7ost.x86_64.rpm
collectd-rrdtool-5.7.2-3.el7ost.x86_64.rpm
collectd-sensors-5.7.2-3.el7ost.x86_64.rpm
collectd-smart-5.7.2-3.el7ost.x86_64.rpm
collectd-snmp-5.7.2-3.el7ost.x86_64.rpm
collectd-turbostat-5.7.2-3.el7ost.x86_64.rpm
collectd-utils-5.7.2-3.el7ost.x86_64.rpm
collectd-virt-5.7.2-3.el7ost.x86_64.rpm
collectd-web-5.7.2-3.el7ost.x86_64.rpm
collectd-write_http-5.7.2-3.el7ost.x86_64.rpm
collectd-write_sensu-5.7.2-3.el7ost.x86_64.rpm
collectd-write_tsdb-5.7.2-3.el7ost.x86_64.rpm
collectd-zookeeper-5.7.2-3.el7ost.x86_64.rpm
libcollectdclient-5.7.2-3.el7ost.x86_64.rpm
perl-Collectd-5.7.2-3.el7ost.x86_64.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/

7. References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-16820
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

8. Contact:

The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

Copyright 2018 Red Hat, Inc.
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