Issued:
2019-01-29
Updated:
2019-02-18

RHSA-2019:0361 - Moderate: rhvm-appliance security update

Synopsis

Moderate: rhvm-appliance security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

An update for rhvm-appliance is now available for Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The RHV-M Virtual Appliance automates the process of installing and configuring the Red Hat Virtualization Manager. The appliance is available to download as an OVA file from the Customer Portal.

Security Fix(es):

  • systemd: stack overflow when calling syslog from a command with long cmdline (CVE-2018-16864)

  • systemd: stack overflow when receiving many journald entries (CVE-2018-16865)

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.

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

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Virtualization4x86_64
Red Hat Virtualization Host4x86_64

Updated Packages

  • rhvm-appliance-4.2-20190129.0.el7.noarch.rpm
  • rhvm-appliance-4.2-20190129.0.el7.src.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information