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RHEL 9: RHSA-2022:7968-01 Low Severity: virt-v2v DoS Issue

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Calendar Grey November 15, 2022
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Red Hat has launched an updated virt-v2v, enhancing its security and functionality by addressing low-severity vulnerabilities and improving stability with essential bug fixes
An update for virt-v2v is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

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 virt-v2v package provides a tool for converting virtual machines to use the KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) hypervisor or Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. The tool modifies both the virtual machine image and its associated libvirt metadata. Also, virt-v2v can configure a guest to use VirtIO drivers if possible.
Security Fix(es):
* libguestfs: Buffer overflow in get_keys leads to DoS (CVE-2022-2211)
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 9.1 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory bug fix low severity red hat enterprise linux dos libguestfs virt-v2v

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-2211 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#low https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/9.1_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9):
Source: virt-v2v-2.0.7-6.el9.src.rpm
noarch: virt-v2v-bash-completion-2.0.7-6.el9.noarch.rpm
x86_64: virt-v2v-2.0.7-6.el9.x86_64.rpm virt-v2v-debuginfo-2.0.7-6.el9.x86_64.rpm virt-v2v-debugsource-2.0.7-6.el9.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 9):
noarch: virt-v2v-man-pages-ja-2.0.7-6.el9.noarch.rpm virt-v2v-man-pages-uk-2.0.7-6.el9.noarch.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-2022:7968-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:7968
Issue date: 2022-11-15

Topic

An update for virt-v2v is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Low. 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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory bug fix low severity red hat enterprise linux dos libguestfs virt-v2v

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 9) - noarch

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) - noarch, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1684075 - Virt-v2v can't convert a guest from VMware via nbdkit-vddk if original guest disk address is irregular

1774386 - input_vmx: cleanly reject guests with snapshots when using "-it ssh"

1788823 - Virt-v2v firstboot scripts should run in order, with v2v network configuration happening first

1817050 - Can't convert guest from VMware with non-admin account and vddk >=7.0 by virt-v2v

1848862 - There is nbdkit curl error info if convert a guest from VMware without vddk by administrator account

1854275 - document that vmx+ssh "-ip" auth doesn't cover ssh / scp shell commands

1868048 - [RFE]virt-v2v should install qemu-ga on debian guest during the conversion

1883802 - -i vmx: SATA disks are not parsed

1985830 - Start or remove VM failure even v2v has already finished

2003503 - There is virt-v2v warning: fstrim on guest filesystem /dev/mapper/osprober-linux-sdb1 failed if non-os disk of source guest has few/no inodes lef

2028764 - Install the qemu-guest-agent package during the conversion process

2039597 - Failed to import VM when selecting OVA as a source on RHV webadmin

2047660 - Add '--compressed' support in modular v2v

2051564 - [RFE]Limiting the maximum number of disks per guest for v2v conversions

2059287 - RFE: Rebase virt-v2v to 2.0 in RHEL 9.1

2062360 - RFE: Virt-v2v should replace hairy "enable LEGACY crypto" advice which a more targeted mechanism

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