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RedHat: RHSA-2020-4172-01 Important: Red Hat Virtualization Security Update

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Calendar Grey October 5, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Implementing security updates and addressing vulnerabilities in Red Hat Virtualization 4 on RHEL 8, essential guidelines must be followed.
An update for cockpit-ovirt, imgbased, redhat-release-virtualization-host, and redhat-virtualization-host is now available for Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux...

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 ovirt-node-ng 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: cockpit-ovirt (0.14.11), imgbased (1.2.12), redhat-release-virtualization-host (4.4.2), redhat-virtualization-host (4.4.2). (BZ#1875362, BZ#1878045)
Security Fix(es):
* grub2: Crafted grub.cfg file can lead to arbitrary code execution during boot process (CVE-2020-10713)
* QEMU: usb: out-of-bounds r/w access issue while processing usb packets (CVE-2020-14364)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue update bug fix important red hat virtualization host management

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-10713 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-14364 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/grub2bootloader

Package List

Red Hat Virtualization 4 Management Agent for RHEL 7 Hosts:
Source: cockpit-ovirt-0.14.11-1.el8ev.src.rpm
noarch: cockpit-ovirt-dashboard-0.14.11-1.el8ev.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Virtualization 4 Hypervisor for RHEL 8:
Source: redhat-virtualization-host-4.4.2-20200930.0.el8_2.src.rpm
noarch: redhat-virtualization-host-image-update-4.4.2-20200930.0.el8_2.noarch.rpm
RHEL 8-based RHEV-H for RHEV 4 (build requirements):
Source: imgbased-1.2.12-0.1.el8ev.src.rpm redhat-release-virtualization-host-4.4.2-1.el8ev.src.rpm
noarch: imgbased-1.2.12-0.1.el8ev.noarch.rpm python3-imgbased-1.2.12-0.1.el8ev.noarch.rpm redhat-virtualization-host-image-update-placeholder-4.4.2-1.el8ev.noarch.rpm
x86_64: redhat-release-virtualization-host-4.4.2-1.el8ev.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-2020:4172-01
Product: Red Hat Virtualization
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4172
Issue date: 2020-10-05

Topic

An update for cockpit-ovirt, imgbased, redhat-release-virtualization-host,and redhat-virtualization-host is now available for Red Hat Virtualization4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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 security issue update bug fix important red hat virtualization host management

Relevant Releases Architectures

RHEL 8-based RHEV-H for RHEV 4 (build requirements) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Virtualization 4 Hypervisor for RHEL 8 - noarch

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

Bugs Fixed

1805589 - grub2-mkconfig produces incorrect config if host installed over iSCSI

1825243 - CVE-2020-10713 grub2: Crafted grub.cfg file can lead to arbitrary code execution during boot process

1847547 - SSH connection disabled during ISO installation

1852721 - Installation of node will not quit when mountpoint has existing domain (VMs)

1859876 - imgbase check failed after register to engine

1868312 - Rebase RHV-H 4.4.2 on Ansible 2.9.12

1869201 - CVE-2020-14364 QEMU: usb: out-of-bounds r/w access issue while processing usb packets

1873049 - Require tested ansible-2.9.13 for ovirt-hosted-engine-setup in RHV Manager 4.4.2

1875362 - Upgrade cockpit-ovirt to 0.14.11

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