Issued:
2022-07-21
Updated:
2022-07-21

RHSA-2022:5678 - Important: Red Hat Virtualization security, bug fix, and enhancement update [ovirt-4.5.1]

Synopsis

Important: Red Hat Virtualization security, bug fix, and enhancement update [ovirt-4.5.1]

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

An update for imgbased, 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.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: redhat-release-virtualization-host (4.5.1), redhat-virtualization-host (4.5.1), redhat-virtualization-host-productimg (4.5.1). (BZ#2062192, BZ#2070869, BZ#2094682)

Security Fix(es):

  • kernel: buffer overflow in IPsec ESP transformation code (CVE-2022-27666)

  • grub2: Integer underflow in grub_net_recv_ip4_packets (CVE-2022-28733)

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):

  • RHV-H 4.4 SP1 Has been rebased on RHEL 8.6 Batch #1 (BZ#2070869)

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

  • redhat-release-virtualization-host-4.5.1-1.el8ev.src.rpm
  • redhat-release-virtualization-host-content-4.5.1-1.el8ev.x86_64.rpm
  • redhat-virtualization-host-productimg-4.5.1-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
  • redhat-release-virtualization-host-4.5.1-1.el8ev.x86_64.rpm
  • redhat-virtualization-host-4.5.1-202207170705_8.6.src.rpm
  • redhat-virtualization-host-productimg-4.5.1-1.el8.src.rpm
  • redhat-virtualization-host-image-update-placeholder-4.5.1-1.el8ev.noarch.rpm
  • redhat-virtualization-host-image-update-4.5.1-202207170705_8.6.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information