RHSA-2021:1627MediumCVSS 7.8

Red Hat Security Advisory: trousers security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Published
May 18, 2021
Last Modified
November 5, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (3)

CVE-2020-24330 →CVE-2020-24331 →CVE-2020-24332 →

📋 Description

CVE-2020-24330 — trousers: fails to drop the root gid privilege when no longer needed CVE-2020-24331 — trousers: tss user still has read and write access to the /etc/tcsd.conf file if tcsd is started as root CVE-2020-24332 — trousers: tss user can be used to create or corrupt existing files, this could lead to DoS

🎯 Affected products47

  • Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • trousers-0:0.3.15-1.el8.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • trousers-0:0.3.15-1.el8.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • trousers-0:0.3.15-1.el8.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • trousers-0:0.3.15-1.el8.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • trousers-0:0.3.15-1.el8.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • trousers-debuginfo-0:0.3.15-1.el8.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8)
  • trousers-debuginfo-0:0.3.15-1.el8.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • trousers-debuginfo-0:0.3.15-1.el8.i686 as a component of Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8)
  • trousers-debuginfo-0:0.3.15-1.el8.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • trousers-debuginfo-0:0.3.15-1.el8.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8)
  • trousers-debuginfo-0:0.3.15-1.el8.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • trousers-debuginfo-0:0.3.15-1.el8.s390x as a component of Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8)
  • trousers-debuginfo-0:0.3.15-1.el8.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • trousers-debuginfo-0:0.3.15-1.el8.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8)
  • trousers-debuginfo-0:0.3.15-1.el8.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • trousers-debugsource-0:0.3.15-1.el8.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8)
  • trousers-debugsource-0:0.3.15-1.el8.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • trousers-debugsource-0:0.3.15-1.el8.i686 as a component of Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8)
  • trousers-debugsource-0:0.3.15-1.el8.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • trousers-debugsource-0:0.3.15-1.el8.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8)
  • trousers-debugsource-0:0.3.15-1.el8.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • trousers-debugsource-0:0.3.15-1.el8.s390x as a component of Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8)
  • trousers-debugsource-0:0.3.15-1.el8.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • trousers-debugsource-0:0.3.15-1.el8.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8)
  • trousers-debugsource-0:0.3.15-1.el8.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • trousers-devel-0:0.3.15-1.el8.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8)
  • trousers-devel-0:0.3.15-1.el8.i686 as a component of Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8)
  • trousers-devel-0:0.3.15-1.el8.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8)
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✅ Remediation

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

🔗 References (7)