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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Security Update: RHSA-2019-1762-01 for libvirt

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Calendar Grey July 11, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Ubuntu has announced a significant upgrade for cloud:12.3.1, tackling major vulnerabilities that pose risks to enterprise cloud computing.
An update for the virt:8.0.0 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Advanced Virtualization

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 Advanced Virtualization module provides the user-space component for running virtual machines that use KVM in environments managed by Red Hat products.
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 security update red hat command execution important libvirt advanced virtualization

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 8 Advanced Virtualization:
Source: SLOF-20180702-3.git9b7ab2f.module+el8.0.0.z+3438+2851622e.src.rpm hivex-1.3.15-6.module+el8.0.0.z+3438+2851622e.src.rpm libguestfs-1.40.2-1.module+el8.0.0.z+3438+2851622e.src.rpm libguestfs-winsupport-8.0-2.module+el8.0.0.z+3438+2851622e.src.rpm libiscsi-1.18.0-6.module+el8.0.0.z+3438+2851622e.src.rpm libssh2-1.8.0-7.module+el8.0.0.z+3438+2851622e.1.src.rpm libvirt-5.0.0-7.2.module+el8.0.0.z+3438+2851622e.src.rpm libvirt-dbus-1.3.0-1.module+el8.0.0.z+3438+2851622e.src.rpm libvirt-python-5.0.0-3.module+el8.0.0.z+3438+2851622e.src.rpm nbdkit-1.4.2-4.module+el8.0.0.z+3438+2851622e.src.rpm netcf-0.2.8-10.module+el8.0.0.z+3438+2851622e.src.rpm perl-Sys-Virt-5.0.0-1.module+el8.0.0.z+3438+2851622e.src.rpm qemu-kvm-3.1.0-20.module+el8.0.0.z+3438+2851622e.1.src.rpm seabios-1.12.0-1.module+el8.0.0.z+3438+2851622e.src.rpm sgabios-0.20170427git-2.module+el8.0.0.z+3438+2851622e.src.rpm supermin-5.1.19-8.module+el8.0.0.z+3438+2851622e.src.rpm
aarch64: hivex-1.3.15-6.module+el8.0.0.z+3438+2851622e.aarch64.rpm hivex-debuginfo-1.3.15-6.module+el8.0.0.z+3438+2851622e.aarch64.rpm hivex-debugsource-1.3.15-6.module+el8.0.0.z+3438+2851622e.aarch64.rpm hivex-devel-1.3.15-6.module+el8.0.0.z+3438+2851622e.aarch64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:1762-01
Product: Advanced Virtualization
Advisory URL: Issue date: 2019-07-11

Topic

An update for the virt:8.0.0 module is now available for Red Hat EnterpriseLinux 8 Advanced Virtualization.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 security update red hat command execution important libvirt advanced virtualization

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Advanced Virtualization - 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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