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RedHat 8.4 RHSA-2022:0759-01 Moderate: QEMU Privilege Escalation Fix

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Calendar Grey March 7, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Important security patch issued for Oracle Linux components virt:ol and virt-devel:ol to mitigate risks of unauthorized access.
An update for the virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel modules is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support

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

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) offers a full virtualization solution for Linux on numerous hardware platforms. The virt:rhel module contains packages which provide user-space components used to run virtual machines using KVM. The packages also provide APIs for managing and interacting with the virtualized systems.
Security Fix(es):
* QEMU: virtiofsd: potential privilege escalation via CVE-2018-13405 (CVE-2022-0358)
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):
* Incompatibilities between 8.5 virsh and libvirtd from virt:av (BZ#2053520)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate privilege escalation Red Hat Enterprise Linux QEMU bug fix update virt:rhel

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-0358 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.4):
Source: SLOF-20191022-3.git899d9883.module+el8.3.0+6423+e4cb6418.src.rpm hivex-1.3.18-21.module+el8.4.0+10770+19c037f9.src.rpm libguestfs-1.40.2-27.module+el8.4.0+9282+0bdec052.src.rpm libguestfs-winsupport-8.2-1.module+el8.3.0+6423+e4cb6418.src.rpm libiscsi-1.18.0-8.module+el8.1.0+4066+0f1aadab.src.rpm libnbd-1.2.2-1.module+el8.3.0+7353+9de0a3cc.src.rpm libvirt-6.0.0-35.2.module+el8.4.0+14226+d39fa4ab.src.rpm libvirt-dbus-1.3.0-2.module+el8.3.0+6423+e4cb6418.src.rpm libvirt-python-6.0.0-1.module+el8.3.0+6423+e4cb6418.src.rpm nbdkit-1.16.2-4.module+el8.3.0+6922+fd575af8.src.rpm netcf-0.2.8-12.module+el8.1.0+4066+0f1aadab.src.rpm perl-Sys-Virt-6.0.0-1.module+el8.3.0+6423+e4cb6418.src.rpm qemu-kvm-4.2.0-48.module+el8.4.0+14171+d59d4af6.4.src.rpm seabios-1.13.0-2.module+el8.3.0+7353+9de0a3cc.src.rpm sgabios-0.20170427git-3.module+el8.1.0+4066+0f1aadab.src.rpm supermin-5.1.19-10.module+el8.3.0+6423+e4cb6418.src.rpm
aarch64: hivex-1.3.18-21.module+el8.4.0+10770+19c037f9.aarch64.rpm hivex-debuginfo-1.3.18-21.module+el8.4.0+10770+19c037f9.aarch64.rpm hivex-debugsource-1.3.18-21.module+el8.4.0+10770+19c037f9.aarch64.rpm hivex-devel-1.3.18-21.module+el8.4.0+10770+19c037f9.aarch64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:0759-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL:
Issue date: 2022-03-07

Topic

An update for the virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel modules is now availablefor Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support.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 privilege escalation Red Hat Enterprise Linux QEMU bug fix update virt:rhel

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder EUS (v. 8.4) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.4) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2044863 - CVE-2022-0358 QEMU: virtiofsd: potential privilege escalation via CVE-2018-13405

2053520 - Incompatibilities between 8.5 virsh and libvirtd from virt:av [None8.4.0.z]

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