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RedHat 2022-09-08: RHSA-2022-6392-01 Critical DoS In ovirt-host Package

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Calendar Grey September 8, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat issues a significant notice concerning RHV RHEL Host, targeting a Denial of Service vulnerability while delivering essential enhancements.
Updated host packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now available

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 ovirt-host package consolidates host package requirements into a single meta package.
Security Fix(es):
* moment: inefficient parsing algorithm resulting in DoS (CVE-2022-31129)
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):
* The hosted-engine-ha binaries have been moved from /usr/share to /usr/libexec. As a result, the hosted-engine --clean-metadata command fails. With this release, you must use the new path for the command to succeed: /usr/libexec/ovirt-hosted-engine-ha/ovirt-ha-agent (BZ#2105781)
* A new warning has been added to the vdsm-tool to protect users from using the unsupported user_friendly_names multipath configuration. The following is an example of the output:
$ vdsm-tool is-configured --module multipath WARNING: Invalid configuration: 'user_friendly_names' is enabled in multipath configuration: section1 { key1 value1 user_friendly_names yes key2 value2 } section2 { user_friendly_names yes } This configuration is not supported and may lead to storage domain corruption. (BZ#1793207)

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update DoS issue important bug fixes ovirt-host RHV RHEL Host

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-31129 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Virtualization 4 Management Agent for RHEL 7 Hosts:
Source: cockpit-ovirt-0.16.2-1.el8ev.src.rpm mom-0.6.3-1.el8ev.src.rpm ovirt-host-4.5.0-3.1.el8ev.src.rpm ovirt-hosted-engine-setup-2.6.5-1.1.el8ev.src.rpm vdsm-4.50.2.2-1.el8ev.src.rpm
noarch: cockpit-ovirt-dashboard-0.16.2-1.el8ev.noarch.rpm mom-0.6.3-1.el8ev.noarch.rpm ovirt-hosted-engine-setup-2.6.5-1.1.el8ev.noarch.rpm vdsm-api-4.50.2.2-1.el8ev.noarch.rpm vdsm-client-4.50.2.2-1.el8ev.noarch.rpm vdsm-common-4.50.2.2-1.el8ev.noarch.rpm vdsm-hook-cpuflags-4.50.2.2-1.el8ev.noarch.rpm vdsm-hook-ethtool-options-4.50.2.2-1.el8ev.noarch.rpm vdsm-hook-fcoe-4.50.2.2-1.el8ev.noarch.rpm vdsm-hook-localdisk-4.50.2.2-1.el8ev.noarch.rpm vdsm-hook-nestedvt-4.50.2.2-1.el8ev.noarch.rpm vdsm-hook-openstacknet-4.50.2.2-1.el8ev.noarch.rpm vdsm-hook-vhostmd-4.50.2.2-1.el8ev.noarch.rpm vdsm-http-4.50.2.2-1.el8ev.noarch.rpm vdsm-jsonrpc-4.50.2.2-1.el8ev.noarch.rpm vdsm-python-4.50.2.2-1.el8ev.noarch.rpm vdsm-yajsonrpc-4.50.2.2-1.el8ev.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: ovirt-host-4.5.0-3.1.el8ev.ppc64le.rpm ovirt-host-dependencies-4.5.0-3.1.el8ev.ppc64le.rpm vdsm-4.50.2.2-1.el8ev.ppc64le.rpm vdsm-hook-checkips-4.50.2.2-1.el8ev.ppc64le.rpm vdsm-hook-extra-ipv4-addrs-4.50.2.2-1.el8ev.ppc64le.rpm vdsm-network-4.50.2.2-1.el8ev.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64:

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:6392-01
Product: Red Hat Virtualization
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:6392
Issue date: 2022-09-08

Topic

Updated host packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancementsare now available.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 update DoS issue important bug fixes ovirt-host RHV RHEL Host

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Virtualization 4 Hypervisor for RHEL 8 - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Virtualization 4 Management Agent for RHEL 7 Hosts - noarch, ppc64le, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1793207 - [RFE] Notify if multipath User Friendly Names are used

2105075 - CVE-2022-31129 moment: inefficient parsing algorithm resulting in DoS

2105781 - hosted-engine --clean-metadata fails because ovirt-ha-agent has changed location

2117558 - hosted-engine deploy failed since "Failed to configure OVN controller"

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