RHSA-2019:1116
Vulnerability from csaf_redhat - Published: 2019-05-08 13:44 - Updated: 2025-11-21 18:08Summary
Red Hat Security Advisory: redhat-virtualization-host security update
Severity
Important
Notes
Topic: 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.
Details: 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)
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A flaw was found in edk2. When registering a RAM disk whose size is not a multiple of 512 bytes, the BlockIo protocol produced by the RamDiskDxe driver will incur memory read/write overrun. The memory overrun will happen when reading/writing the last block on the RAM disk. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.
8.3 (High)
Affected products
Fixed
5 products
| Product | Identifier | Version | Remediation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unresolved product id: 7Server-RHEV-4-Hypervisor-7:redhat-virtualization-host-0:4.3-20190418.0.el7_6.src | — |
Vendor Fix
fix
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| Unresolved product id: 7Server-RHEV-4-Hypervisor-7:redhat-virtualization-host-image-update-0:4.3-20190418.0.el7_6.noarch | — |
Vendor Fix
fix
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| Unresolved product id: 7Server-RHEV-4-HypervisorBuild-7:redhat-release-virtualization-host-0:4.3-0.6.el7.src | — |
Vendor Fix
fix
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| Unresolved product id: 7Server-RHEV-4-HypervisorBuild-7:redhat-release-virtualization-host-0:4.3-0.6.el7.x86_64 | — |
Vendor Fix
fix
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| Unresolved product id: 7Server-RHEV-4-HypervisorBuild-7:redhat-virtualization-host-image-update-placeholder-0:4.3-0.6.el7.noarch | — |
Vendor Fix
fix
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Threats
Impact
Important
References
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