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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7: RHSA-2022-0443 Important: RHV-H Security Update

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Calendar Grey February 8, 2022
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A significant RHV-H security patch tackles authorization elevation in Red Hat Virtualization for RHEL 8 environments.
An update for redhat-release-virtualization-host and redhat-virtualization-host 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

The redhat-virtualization-host packages provide the Red Hat Virtualization Host. These packages include redhat-release-virtualization-host. 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.
Security Fix(es):
* polkit: Local privilege escalation in pkexec due to incorrect handling of argument vector (CVE-2021-4034)
* samba: Active Directory (AD) domain user could become root on domain members (CVE-2020-25717)
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 privilege escalation important red hat virtualization rhv-h ad domain

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-25717 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-4034 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/RHSB-2022-001

Package List

Red Hat Virtualization 4 Hypervisor for RHEL 7:
Source: redhat-virtualization-host-4.3.21-20220126.0.el7_9.src.rpm
noarch: redhat-virtualization-host-image-update-4.3.21-20220126.0.el7_9.noarch.rpm
RHEL 7-based RHEV-H for RHEV 4 (build requirements):
Source: redhat-release-virtualization-host-4.3.21-1.el7ev.src.rpm redhat-virtualization-host-4.3.21-20220126.0.el7_9.src.rpm
noarch: redhat-virtualization-host-image-update-4.3.21-20220126.0.el7_9.noarch.rpm redhat-virtualization-host-image-update-placeholder-4.3.21-1.el7ev.noarch.rpm
x86_64: redhat-release-virtualization-host-4.3.21-1.el7ev.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-2022:0443-01
Product: Red Hat Virtualization
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:0443
Issue date: 2022-02-07

Topic

An update for redhat-release-virtualization-host andredhat-virtualization-host 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 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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory privilege escalation important red hat virtualization rhv-h ad domain

Relevant Releases Architectures

RHEL 7-based RHEV-H for RHEV 4 (build requirements) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Virtualization 4 Hypervisor for RHEL 7 - noarch

Bugs Fixed

2019672 - CVE-2020-25717 samba: Active Directory (AD) domain user could become root on domain members2025869 - CVE-2021-4034 polkit: Local privilege escalation in pkexec due to incorrect handling of argument vector

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