Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-7711-03 - An update for apr is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Issues addressed include an integer overflow vulnerability.
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Moderate: apr security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:7711-03
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7711
Issue date: 2023-12-11
Revision: 03
CVE Names: CVE-2022-24963
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Summary:
An update for apr is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.
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:
The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) is a portability library used by the Apache HTTP Server and other projects. It provides a free library of C data structures and routines.
Security Fix(es):
* apr: integer overflow/wraparound in apr_encode (CVE-2022-24963)
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-2022-24963
References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2169465