RHEL 7 : Virtualization Manager (RHSA-2019:0457)

high Nessus Plugin ID 122737

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

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.

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 (4.2), redhat-virtualization-host (4.2). (BZ #1678629, BZ#1679414)

Security Fix(es) :

* spice: Off-by-one error in array access in spice/server/memslot.c (CVE-2019-3813)

* systemd: Insufficient input validation in bus_process_object() resulting in PID 1 crash (CVE-2019-6454)

* vdsm: privilege escalation to root via systemd_run (CVE-2019-3831)

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.

Solution

Update the affected redhat-release-virtualization-host, redhat-virtualization-host-image-update and / or redhat-virtualization-host-image-update-placeholder packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0457

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-3813

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-3831

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-6454

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 122737

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-0457.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/11/2019

Updated: 5/23/2022

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-3831

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-3813

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:redhat-release-virtualization-host, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:redhat-virtualization-host-image-update, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:redhat-virtualization-host-image-update-placeholder, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/5/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/4/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-3813, CVE-2019-3831, CVE-2019-6454

RHSA: 2019:0457