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RedHat Enterprise Linux 8 RHSA-2019-1580-01 Important Command Execution

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Calendar Grey June 20, 2019
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An update for the virt:rhel module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Solution

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

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

The libvirt library contains a C API for managing and interacting with the virtualization capabilities of Linux and other operating systems. In addition, libvirt provides tools for remote management of virtualized systems.
Security Fix(es):
* libvirt: arbitrary file read/exec via virDomainSaveImageGetXMLDesc API (CVE-2019-10161)
* libvirt: virDomainManagedSaveDefineXML API exposed to readonly clients (CVE-2019-10166)
* libvirt: arbitrary command execution via virConnectGetDomainCapabilities API (CVE-2019-10167)
* libvirt: arbitrary command execution via virConnectBaselineHypervisorCPU and virConnectCompareHypervisorCPU APIs (CVE-2019-10168)
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 command execution important file access virtualization libvirt

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-10161 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-10166 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-10167 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-10168 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: SLOF-20171214-5.gitfa98132.module+el8.0.0.z+3418+a72cf898.src.rpm hivex-1.3.15-6.module+el8.0.0.z+3418+a72cf898.src.rpm libguestfs-1.38.4-10.1.module+el8.0.0.z+3418+a72cf898.src.rpm libguestfs-winsupport-8.0-2.module+el8.0.0.z+3418+a72cf898.src.rpm libiscsi-1.18.0-6.module+el8.0.0.z+3418+a72cf898.src.rpm libssh2-1.8.0-7.module+el8.0.0.z+3418+a72cf898.1.src.rpm libvirt-4.5.0-23.3.module+el8.0.0.z+3418+a72cf898.src.rpm libvirt-dbus-1.2.0-2.module+el8.0.0.z+3418+a72cf898.src.rpm libvirt-python-4.5.0-1.module+el8.0.0.z+3418+a72cf898.src.rpm nbdkit-1.4.2-4.module+el8.0.0.z+3418+a72cf898.src.rpm netcf-0.2.8-10.module+el8.0.0.z+3418+a72cf898.src.rpm perl-Sys-Virt-4.5.0-4.module+el8.0.0.z+3418+a72cf898.src.rpm qemu-kvm-2.12.0-64.module+el8.0.0.z+3418+a72cf898.2.src.rpm seabios-1.11.1-3.module+el8.0.0.z+3418+a72cf898.src.rpm sgabios-0.20170427git-2.module+el8.0.0.z+3418+a72cf898.src.rpm supermin-5.1.19-8.module+el8.0.0.z+3418+a72cf898.src.rpm
aarch64: hivex-1.3.15-6.module+el8.0.0.z+3418+a72cf898.aarch64.rpm hivex-debuginfo-1.3.15-6.module+el8.0.0.z+3418+a72cf898.aarch64.rpm hivex-debugsource-1.3.15-6.module+el8.0.0.z+3418+a72cf898.aarch64.rpm hivex-devel-1.3.15-6.module+el8.0.0.z+3418+a72cf898.aarch64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:1580-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1580
Issue date: 2019-06-20

Topic

An update for the virt:rhel module is now available for Red Hat EnterpriseLinux 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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory red hat command execution important file access virtualization libvirt

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1720114 - CVE-2019-10166 libvirt: virDomainManagedSaveDefineXML API exposed to readonly clients

1720115 - CVE-2019-10161 libvirt: arbitrary file read/exec via virDomainSaveImageGetXMLDesc API

1720117 - CVE-2019-10167 libvirt: arbitrary command execution via virConnectGetDomainCapabilities API

1720118 - CVE-2019-10168 libvirt: arbitrary command execution via virConnectBaselineHypervisorCPU and virConnectCompareHypervisorCPU APIs

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