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Red Hat: RHSA-2019-0342-01 Moderate: Systemd Stack Overflow Risks

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Calendar Grey February 13, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Critical patch released for Ubuntu Server addressing vulnerabilities in OpenSSH that could lead to remote code execution.
An update for redhat-virtualization-host is now available for Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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.
Security Fix(es):
* systemd: stack overflow when calling syslog from a command with long cmdline (CVE-2018-16864)
* systemd: stack overflow when receiving many journald entries (CVE-2018-16865)
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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update red hat virtualization systemd

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16864 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16865 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Virtualization 4 Hypervisor for RHEL 7:
Source: redhat-virtualization-host-4.2-20190129.0.el7_6.src.rpm
noarch: redhat-virtualization-host-image-update-4.2-20190129.0.el7_6.noarch.rpm
RHEL 7-based RHEV-H for RHEV 4 (build requirements):
Source: redhat-release-virtualization-host-4.2-8.1.el7.src.rpm
noarch: redhat-virtualization-host-image-update-placeholder-4.2-8.1.el7.noarch.rpm
x86_64: redhat-release-virtualization-host-4.2-8.1.el7.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


Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:0342-01
Product: Red Hat Virtualization
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0342
Issue date: 2019-02-13

Topic

An update for redhat-virtualization-host is now available for Red HatVirtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update red hat virtualization systemd

Relevant Releases Architectures

RHEL 7-based RHEV-H for RHEV 4 (build requirements) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Virtualization 4 Hypervisor for RHEL 7 - noarch

Bugs Fixed

1653855 - CVE-2018-16864 systemd: stack overflow when calling syslog from a command with long cmdline

1653861 - CVE-2018-16865 systemd: stack overflow when receiving many journald entries

1666987 - Include RHGS 3.4.z BU3 (3.4.3) glusterfs build in RHV 4.2.8 Async

1670318 - RHV-H 4.2.8-1 tracker

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