Issued:
2022-02-15
Updated:
2022-02-15

RHSA-2022:0540 - Important: Red Hat Virtualization Host security update [ovirt-4.4.10-1]

Synopsis

Important: Red Hat Virtualization Host security update [ovirt-4.4.10-1]

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

An update for redhat-release-virtualization-host and redhat-virtualization-host is now available for Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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 redhat-virtualization-host packages provide the Red Hat Virtualization Host. These packages include redhat-release-virtualization-host, ovirt-node, and rhev-hypervisor. Red Hat Virtualization Hosts (RHVH) are installed using a special build of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with only the packages required to host virtual machines. RHVH features a Cockpit user interface for monitoring the host's resources and performing administrative tasks.

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.

Security Fix(es):

  • polkit: Local privilege escalation in pkexec due to incorrect handling of argument vector (CVE-2021-4034)

  • kernel: xfs: raw block device data leak in XFS_IOC_ALLOCSP IOCTL (CVE-2021-4155)

  • aide: heap-based buffer overflow on outputs larger than B64_BUF (CVE-2021-45417)

  • kernel: fs_context: heap overflow in legacy parameter handling (CVE-2022-0185)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Bug Fix(es):

  • Rebased wget package and its dependencies for the same version shipped with recent RHEL. (BZ#2030082)

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

  • libmetalink-debuginfo-0.1.3-7.el8.x86_64.rpm
  • wget-debuginfo-1.19.5-10.el8.x86_64.rpm
  • libmetalink-0.1.3-7.el8.x86_64.rpm
  • redhat-release-virtualization-host-content-4.4.10-1.el8ev.x86_64.rpm
  • wget-1.19.5-10.el8.x86_64.rpm
  • wget-1.19.5-10.el8.src.rpm
  • wget-debugsource-1.19.5-10.el8.x86_64.rpm
  • redhat-virtualization-host-4.4.10-202202081536_8.5.src.rpm
  • libmetalink-debugsource-0.1.3-7.el8.x86_64.rpm
  • redhat-release-virtualization-host-4.4.10-1.el8ev.src.rpm
  • redhat-release-virtualization-host-4.4.10-1.el8ev.x86_64.rpm
  • libmetalink-0.1.3-7.el8.src.rpm
  • redhat-virtualization-host-image-update-4.4.10-202202081536_8.5.x86_64.rpm
  • redhat-virtualization-host-image-update-placeholder-4.4.10-1.el8ev.noarch.rpm
  • libmetalink-devel-0.1.3-7.el8.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information