SB2020112436 - Red Hat update for Red Hat Virtualization
Published: November 24, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2020112436
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-1730)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improper resource management while cleaning the AES-CTR ciphers when closing the connection. A remote attacker can initiate a connection to the client and server that supports AES-CTR ciphers and close the connection before ciphers are initialized, triggering a denial of service condition (service crash). The vulnerability affects both client and server implementations.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.