Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-4241-03 - An update for iperf3 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Issues addressed include a denial of service vulnerability.
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Moderate: iperf3 security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2024:4241-03
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4241
Issue date: 2024-07-02
Revision: 03
CVE Names: CVE-2023-7250
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Summary:
An update for iperf3 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
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:
Iperf is a tool which can measure maximum TCP bandwidth and tune various parameters and UDP characteristics. Iperf reports bandwidth, delay jitter, and data-gram loss.
Security Fix(es):
* iperf3: possible denial of service (CVE-2023-7250)
* iperf3: vulnerable to marvin attack if the authentication option is used (CVE-2024-26306)
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.
Solution:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
CVEs:
CVE-2023-7250
References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2244707
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2270270