Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-3008-03 - An update for pmix is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Important: pmix security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2024:3008-03
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3008
Issue date: 2024-05-22
Revision: 03
CVE Names: CVE-2023-41915
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Summary:
An update for pmix is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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:
The Process Management Interface (PMI) provides process management functions for MPI implementations. PMI Exascale (PMIx) provides an extended version of the PMI standard specifically designed to support clusters up to and including exascale sizes.
Security Fix(es):
* pmix: race condition allows attackers to obtain ownership of arbitrary files (CVE-2023-41915)
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 8.10 Release Notes linked from the References section.
Solution:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
CVEs:
CVE-2023-41915
References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.10_release_notes/index
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2238898