Issued:
2022-03-24
Updated:
2022-03-24

RHSA-2022:1053 - Important: Red Hat Virtualization Host security and enhancement update [ovirt-4.4.10] Async #2

Synopsis

Important: Red Hat Virtualization Host security and enhancement update [ovirt-4.4.10] Async #2

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.

Security Fix(es):

  • expat: Malformed 2- and 3-byte UTF-8 sequences can lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2022-25235)

  • expat: Namespace-separator characters in "xmlns[:prefix]" attribute values can lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2022-25236)

  • expat: Integer overflow in storeRawNames() (CVE-2022-25315)

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):

  • Red Hat Virtualization Host was rebased on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5.0.3. (BZ#2048407)

  • Rebase package(s) to version: libvirt-7.6.0-6.1.module+el8.5.0+14474+b3410d40 Highlights and important bug fixes: consume libvirt fix for failure to connect socket to '/run/libvirt/virtlogd-sock' - possibly caused by too many open files from libvirtd. (BZ#2057048)

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

  • elfutils-debugsource-0.185-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
  • redhat-release-virtualization-host-4.4.10-3.el8ev.src.rpm
  • elfutils-debuginfo-0.185-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
  • redhat-release-virtualization-host-content-4.4.10-3.el8ev.x86_64.rpm
  • redhat-virtualization-host-4.4.10-202203211649_8.5.src.rpm
  • redhat-virtualization-host-image-update-placeholder-4.4.10-3.el8ev.noarch.rpm
  • elfutils-debuginfod-client-0.185-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
  • elfutils-devel-0.185-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
  • elfutils-0.185-1.el8.src.rpm
  • redhat-release-virtualization-host-4.4.10-3.el8ev.x86_64.rpm
  • redhat-virtualization-host-image-update-4.4.10-202203211649_8.5.x86_64.rpm
  • elfutils-libelf-debuginfo-0.185-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
  • elfutils-debuginfod-debuginfo-0.185-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
  • elfutils-libs-debuginfo-0.185-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
  • elfutils-debuginfod-client-debuginfo-0.185-1.el8.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information