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Red Hat: RHSA-2019-3387-01 Low Severity: osinfo-db and libosinfo Fix

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Calendar Grey November 5, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Minor security patch released for osinfo-db and libosinfo in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Prompt resolutions are accessible.
An update for osinfo-db, osinfo-db-tools, libosinfo, and gnome-boxes is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a s...

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 osinfo-db package contains a database that provides information about operating systems and hypervisor platforms to facilitate the automated configuration and provisioning of new virtual machines.
The libosinfo packages provide a library that allows virtualization provisioning tools to determine the optimal device settings for a combination of hypervisor and operating system.
Security Fix(es):
* Libosinfo: osinfo-install-script option leaks password via command line argument (CVE-2019-13313)
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.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux low severity libosinfo osinfo-db

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-13313 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.1_release_notes/

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: gnome-boxes-3.28.5-7.el8.src.rpm libosinfo-1.5.0-3.el8.src.rpm osinfo-db-20190611-1.el8.src.rpm osinfo-db-tools-1.5.0-4.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: libosinfo-1.5.0-3.el8.aarch64.rpm libosinfo-debuginfo-1.5.0-3.el8.aarch64.rpm libosinfo-debugsource-1.5.0-3.el8.aarch64.rpm osinfo-db-tools-1.5.0-4.el8.aarch64.rpm osinfo-db-tools-debuginfo-1.5.0-4.el8.aarch64.rpm osinfo-db-tools-debugsource-1.5.0-4.el8.aarch64.rpm
noarch: osinfo-db-20190611-1.el8.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: libosinfo-1.5.0-3.el8.ppc64le.rpm libosinfo-debuginfo-1.5.0-3.el8.ppc64le.rpm libosinfo-debugsource-1.5.0-3.el8.ppc64le.rpm osinfo-db-tools-1.5.0-4.el8.ppc64le.rpm osinfo-db-tools-debuginfo-1.5.0-4.el8.ppc64le.rpm osinfo-db-tools-debugsource-1.5.0-4.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: libosinfo-1.5.0-3.el8.s390x.rpm libosinfo-debuginfo-1.5.0-3.el8.s390x.rpm libosinfo-debugsource-1.5.0-3.el8.s390x.rpm osinfo-db-tools-1.5.0-4.el8.s390x.rpm osinfo-db-tools-debuginfo-1.5.0-4.el8.s390x.rpm osinfo-db-tools-debugsource-1.5.0-4.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64: gnome-boxes-3.28.5-7.el8.x86_64.rpm gnome-boxes-debuginfo-3.28.5-7.el8.x86_64.rpm gnome-boxes-debugsource-3.28.5-7.el8.x86_64.rpm libosinfo-1.5.0-3.el8.i686.rpm libosinfo-1.5.0-3.el8.x86_64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:3387-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3387
Issue date: 2019-11-05

Topic

An update for osinfo-db, osinfo-db-tools, libosinfo, and gnome-boxes is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux low severity libosinfo osinfo-db

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

1685364 - Add win2019 to libosinfo

1689817 - virt-manager cannot detect operating system name for rhel8.0.0 tree automatically

1699988 - Rebase to the latest upstream release

1699989 - Rebase to the latest upstream release

1699990 - Rebase to the latest upstream release

1703480 - RHEL-8.0.x is not detected as RHEL-8.0

1713130 - gnome-boxes does not show RHEL-8 logo in Source Selection

1713245 - Add rhel-8.1 and rhel-7.7 entries

1727766 - CVE-2019-13313 Libosinfo: osinfo-install-script option leaks password via command line argument

1739897 - RHEL8.1 ppc64le iso is recognized as x86_64 by Boxes (Source Selection)

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