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Red Hat Virtualization 4 Important Advisory: RHSA-2022-8598-01

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Calendar Grey November 22, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) has released crucial security updates to counter critical vulnerabilities that threaten system integrity, data confidentiality, and network security
An update for redhat-release-virtualization-host, redhat-virtualization-host, and redhat-virtualization-host-productimg is now available for Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat En...

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/2974891

Summary

The redhat-virtualization-host packages provide the Red Hat Virtualization Host. These packages include redhat-release-virtualization-host, ovirt-node, and rhev-hypervisor. Red Hat Virtualization Hosts (RHVH) are installed using a special build of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with only the packages required to host virtual machines. RHVH features a Cockpit user interface for monitoring the host's resources and performing administrative tasks.
The ovirt-node-ng packages provide the Red Hat Virtualization Host. These packages include redhat-release-virtualization-host, ovirt-node, and rhev-hypervisor. Red Hat Virtualization Hosts (RHVH) are installed using a special build of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with only the packages required to host virtual machines. RHVH features a Cockpit user interface for monitoring the host's resources and performing administrative tasks.
The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: redhat-release-virtualization-host (4.5.2), redhat-virtualization-host (4.5.2), redhat-virtualization-host-productimg (4.5.2). (BZ#2070049, BZ#2093195)
Security Fix(es):
* libksba: integer overflow may lead to remote code execution (CVE-2022-3515)
* bind: memory leak in ECDSA DNSSEC verification code (CVE-2022-38177)
* bind: memory leaks in EdDSA DNSSEC verification code (CVE-2022-38178)
* expat: a use-after-free in the doContent function in xmlparse.c (CVE-2022-40674)
* device-mapper-multipath: Authorization bypass, multipathd daemon listens for client connections on an abstract Unix socket (CVE-2022-41974)
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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory remote code execution important update red hat virtualization frequent threats

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-3515 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-38177 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-38178 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-40674 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-41974 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Virtualization 4 Hypervisor for RHEL 8:
Source: redhat-virtualization-host-4.5.3-202211170828_8.6.src.rpm
x86_64: redhat-virtualization-host-image-update-4.5.3-202211170828_8.6.x86_64.rpm
RHEL 8-based RHEV-H for RHEV 4 (build requirements):
Source: redhat-release-virtualization-host-4.5.3-1.el8ev.src.rpm redhat-virtualization-host-productimg-4.5.3-1.el8.src.rpm
noarch: redhat-virtualization-host-image-update-placeholder-4.5.3-1.el8ev.noarch.rpm
x86_64: redhat-release-virtualization-host-4.5.3-1.el8ev.x86_64.rpm redhat-release-virtualization-host-content-4.5.3-1.el8ev.x86_64.rpm redhat-virtualization-host-productimg-4.5.3-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:8598-01
Product: Red Hat Virtualization
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:8598
Issue date: 2022-11-22

Topic

An update for redhat-release-virtualization-host,redhat-virtualization-host, and redhat-virtualization-host-productimg isnow available for Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory remote code execution important update red hat virtualization frequent threats

Relevant Releases Architectures

RHEL 8-based RHEV-H for RHEV 4 (build requirements) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Virtualization 4 Hypervisor for RHEL 8 - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2127936 - Upgrade redhat-release-virtualization-host to 4.5.3

2128601 - CVE-2022-38177 bind: memory leak in ECDSA DNSSEC verification code

2128602 - CVE-2022-38178 bind: memory leaks in EdDSA DNSSEC verification code

2128986 - Rebase RHV-H 4.4 SP1 on RHEL 8.6.0.4

2130769 - CVE-2022-40674 expat: a use-after-free in the doContent function in xmlparse.c

2133988 - CVE-2022-41974 device-mapper-multipath: Authorization bypass, multipathd daemon listens for client connections on an abstract Unix socket

2135610 - CVE-2022-3515 libksba: integer overflow may lead to remote code execution

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