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Red Hat: RHSA-2019-2433-01 Moderate: Cockpit-Ovirt Security Patch

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Calendar Grey August 12, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat has issued a significant security patch for cockpit-ovirt within Red Hat Virtualization 4. Discover the details!
An update for cockpit-ovirt 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

Cockpit is a Linux system adminstration tool with a web UI, easy setup, and minimal system footprint at runtime. When installed on hosts in Red Hat Virtualization, it provides monitoring and management functions beyond those available in the Administration Portal. Cockpit is installed by default on Red Hat Virtualization Host (RHVH).
The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: cockpit-ovirt (0.13.5). (BZ#1705911, BZ#1711192, BZ#1719317, BZ#1723322)
Security Fix(es):
* cockpit-ovirt: admin and appliance passwords saved in plain text variable file during HE deployment (CVE-2019-10139)
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.
Bug Fix(es):
* In this release, the directory /var/lib/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup/cockpit is created with read permissions only for user 'root'. Non 'root' userscannot view this directory. (BZ#1723322)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security issue Red Hat bug fix Red Hat Virtualization cockpit-ovirt

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-10139 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Virtualization 4 Management Agent for RHEL 7 Hosts:
Source: cockpit-ovirt-0.13.5-1.el7ev.src.rpm
noarch: cockpit-ovirt-dashboard-0.13.5-1.el7ev.noarch.rpm
RHEL 7-based RHEV-H for RHEV 4 (build requirements):
Source: cockpit-ovirt-0.13.5-1.el7ev.src.rpm
noarch: cockpit-ovirt-dashboard-0.13.5-1.el7ev.noarch.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-2019:2433-01
Product: Red Hat Virtualization
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2433
Issue date: 2019-08-12

Topic

An update for cockpit-ovirt is now available for Red Hat Virtualization 4for 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 security issue Red Hat bug fix Red Hat Virtualization cockpit-ovirt

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Red Hat Virtualization 4 Management Agent for RHEL 7 Hosts - noarch

Bugs Fixed

1705911 - Update branding with new Red Hat logo

1709829 - CVE-2019-10139 cockpit-ovirt: admin and appliance passwords saved in plain text variable file during HE deployment

1709938 - HE deployment fail with 'Not enough memory' when given the engine vm the maximum memory

1719317 - Upgrade cockpit-ovirt to 0.13.3

1719327 - Passwords saved in clear-text variable files during HE deployment via cockpit-ovirt

1723322 - [downstream clone - 4.3.5] hosted-engine-setup cockpit working directory is world-readable

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