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Red Hat Virtualization 4 Important Security Update RHSA-2019-0457-01

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Calendar Grey March 5, 2019
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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.
The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: redhat-release-virtualization-host (4.2), redhat-virtualization-host (4.2). (BZ#1678629, BZ#1679414)
Security Fix(es):
* spice: Off-by-one error in array access in spice/server/memslot.c (CVE-2019-3813)
* systemd: Insufficient input validation in bus_process_object() resulting in PID 1 crash (CVE-2019-6454)
* vdsm: privilege escalation to root via systemd_run (CVE-2019-3831)
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 red hat privilege escalation security impact system crash important update virtualization host

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-3813 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-3831 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-6454 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Virtualization 4 Hypervisor for RHEL 7:
Source: redhat-virtualization-host-4.2-20190219.0.el7_6.src.rpm
noarch: redhat-virtualization-host-image-update-4.2-20190219.0.el7_6.noarch.rpm
RHEL 7-based RHEV-H for RHEV 4 (build requirements):
Source: redhat-release-virtualization-host-4.2-8.3.el7.src.rpm
noarch: redhat-virtualization-host-image-update-placeholder-4.2-8.3.el7.noarch.rpm
x86_64: redhat-release-virtualization-host-4.2-8.3.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


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:0457-01
Product: Red Hat Virtualization
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0457
Issue date: 2019-03-05

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 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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory red hat privilege escalation security impact system crash important update virtualization host

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

1665371 - CVE-2019-3813 spice: Off-by-one error in array access in spice/server/memslot.c

1667032 - CVE-2019-6454 systemd: Insufficient input validation in bus_process_object() resulting in PID 1 crash

1677108 - CVE-2019-3831 vdsm: privilege escalation to root via systemd_run

1677667 - Tracker for RHV-H 4.2.8 Async #3

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