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RedHat: RHSA-2023:1833-01 Moderate: virt:rhel Memory Corruption Fix

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Calendar Grey April 25, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
CentOS Stream 9.1 undergoes a notable security enhancement impacting container:centos and container-devel:centos components.
An update for the virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel modules is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 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):
* tpm: TCG TPM2.0 implementations vulnerable to memory corruption (CVE-2023-1017)
* tpm2: TCG TPM2.0 implementations vulnerable to memory corruption (CVE-2023-1018)
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):
* Networking receive/transmit_bytes metrics values are swapped (BZ#2173977)
* Logs are spammed with ' Domain id=7 is tainted: custom-ga-command' message (BZ#2180032)
* [qemu] snapshot is failing with error libvirt.libvirtError: internal error: QEMU monitor reply exceeds buffer size (10485760 bytes) (BZ#2181577)

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update memory corruption security fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux virt modules

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-1017 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-1018 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6):
Source: SLOF-20210217-1.module+el8.6.0+14480+c0a3aa0f.src.rpm hivex-1.3.18-23.module+el8.6.0+14480+c0a3aa0f.src.rpm libguestfs-1.44.0-5.module+el8.6.0+14480+c0a3aa0f.src.rpm libguestfs-winsupport-8.6-1.module+el8.6.0+14480+c0a3aa0f.src.rpm libiscsi-1.18.0-8.module+el8.6.0+14480+c0a3aa0f.src.rpm libnbd-1.6.0-5.module+el8.6.0+14480+c0a3aa0f.src.rpm libtpms-0.9.1-1.20211126git1ff6fe1f43.module+el8.6.0+18455+e5d5ac9d.src.rpm libvirt-8.0.0-5.9.module+el8.6.0+18552+b96c5a91.src.rpm libvirt-dbus-1.3.0-2.module+el8.6.0+14480+c0a3aa0f.src.rpm libvirt-python-8.0.0-1.1.module+el8.6.0+16381+3abc475c.src.rpm nbdkit-1.24.0-4.module+el8.6.0+14480+c0a3aa0f.src.rpm netcf-0.2.8-12.module+el8.6.0+14480+c0a3aa0f.src.rpm perl-Sys-Virt-8.0.0-1.module+el8.6.0+14480+c0a3aa0f.src.rpm qemu-kvm-6.2.0-11.module+el8.6.0+18167+43cf40f3.8.src.rpm seabios-1.15.0-2.module+el8.6.0+14757+c25ee005.src.rpm sgabios-0.20170427git-3.module+el8.6.0+14480+c0a3aa0f.src.rpm supermin-5.2.1-1.module+el8.6.0+14480+c0a3aa0f.src.rpm swtpm-0.7.0-3.20211109gitb79fd91.module+el8.6.0+16156+d5629340.src.rpm virt-v2v-1.42.0-19.module+el8.6.0+15577+2ffd6ffa.src.rpm
aarch64: hivex-1.3.18-23.module+el8.6.0+14480+c0a3aa0f.aarch64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:1833-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:1833
Issue date: 2023-04-18

Topic

An update for the virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel modules is now availablefor Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update memory corruption security fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux virt modules

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder EUS (v.8.6) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2149416 - CVE-2023-1017 tpm: TCG TPM2.0 implementations vulnerable to memory corruption

2149420 - CVE-2023-1018 tpm2: TCG TPM2.0 implementations vulnerable to memory corruption

2173977 - Networking receive/transmit_bytes metrics values are swapped [rhel-8.6.0.z]

2180032 - Logs are spammed with ' Domain id=7 is tainted: custom-ga-command' message [rhel-8.6.0.z]

2181577 - [qemu] snapshot is failing with error libvirt.libvirtError: internal error: QEMU monitor reply exceeds buffer size (10485760 bytes) [rhel-8.6.0.z]

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