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Red Hat Security Advisory 2019-1116-01

Red Hat Security Advisory 2019-1116-01
Posted May 8, 2019
Authored by Red Hat | Site access.redhat.com

Red Hat Security Advisory 2019-1116-01 - OVMF is an EDK II based project to enable UEFI support for Virtual Machines. The ovmf package contains a sample 64-bit UEFI firmware for QEMU and KVM, including the edk2 package. 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 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. Issues addressed include a buffer overflow vulnerability.

tags | advisory, overflow
systems | linux, redhat
advisories | CVE-2018-12180
SHA-256 | 43f4f10f58faad85172e9739bdffb7d8aa480b8a8fcf2fa6620c86d59ece1bda

Red Hat Security Advisory 2019-1116-01

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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Important: redhat-virtualization-host security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:1116-01
Product: Red Hat Virtualization
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1116
Issue date: 2019-05-08
CVE Names: CVE-2018-12180
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1. Summary:

An update for redhat-virtualization-host 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 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.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

RHEL 7-based RHEV-H for RHEV 4 (build requirements) - noarch, x86_64
Red Hat Virtualization 4 Hypervisor for RHEL 7 - noarch

3. Description:

OVMF (Open Virtual Machine Firmware) is an EDK II (edk2) based project to
enable UEFI support for Virtual Machines. The ovmf package contains a
sample 64-bit UEFI firmware for QEMU and KVM, including the edk2 package.

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):

* edk2: Buffer Overflow in BlockIo service for RAM disk (CVE-2018-12180)

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):

* Previously, after upgrading Red Hat Virtualization Host from
rhvh-4.1-0.20180425.0 to rhvh-4.2.4.3-0.20180627, the owner and group of
sshd.conf were incorrectly changed from root:root to sssd:sssd. As a
result, RHEL IdM accounts using sssd could not ssh into the host. The
current release fixes this issue. (BZ#1608513)

4. Solution:

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/2974891

5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

1608513 - sssd.conf was incorrectly marked for file ownership as sssd:sssd
1683372 - CVE-2018-12180 edk2: Buffer Overflow in BlockIo service for RAM disk
1696303 - Rebase RHV-H on RHEL-7.6 batch #4
1700782 - RHVH does not include the latest openvswitch package
1700868 - [Tracker] RHV-H for 4.3.3-1

6. Package List:

Red Hat Virtualization 4 Hypervisor for RHEL 7:

Source:
redhat-virtualization-host-4.3-20190418.0.el7_6.src.rpm

noarch:
redhat-virtualization-host-image-update-4.3-20190418.0.el7_6.noarch.rpm

RHEL 7-based RHEV-H for RHEV 4 (build requirements):

Source:
redhat-release-virtualization-host-4.3-0.6.el7.src.rpm

noarch:
redhat-virtualization-host-image-update-placeholder-4.3-0.6.el7.noarch.rpm

x86_64:
redhat-release-virtualization-host-4.3-0.6.el7.x86_64.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/

7. References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12180
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

8. Contact:

The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

Copyright 2019 Red Hat, Inc.
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