Moderate: virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel security and bug fix update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-1017   CVE-2023-1018  

Synopsis

Moderate: virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

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Topic

An update for the virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel modules is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) offers a full virtualization solution for Linux on numerous hardware platforms. The virt:rhel module contains packages which provide user-space components used to run virtual machines using KVM. The packages also provide APIs for managing and interacting with the virtualized systems.

Security Fix(es):

  • tpm: TCG TPM2.0 implementations vulnerable to memory corruption (CVE-2023-1017)
  • tpm2: TCG TPM2.0 implementations vulnerable to memory corruption (CVE-2023-1018)

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):

  • Networking receive/transmit_bytes metrics values are swapped (BZ#2173977)
  • Logs are spammed with ' Domain id=7 is tainted: custom-ga-command' message (BZ#2180032)
  • [qemu] snapshot is failing with error libvirt.libvirtError: internal error: QEMU monitor reply exceeds buffer size (10485760 bytes) (BZ#2181577)

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.6 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.6 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.6 aarch64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.6 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.6 x86_64
  • Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.6 x86_64
  • Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.6 ppc64le
  • Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.6 s390x
  • Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.6 aarch64

Fixes

  • BZ - 2149416 - CVE-2023-1017 tpm: TCG TPM2.0 implementations vulnerable to memory corruption
  • BZ - 2149420 - CVE-2023-1018 tpm2: TCG TPM2.0 implementations vulnerable to memory corruption
  • BZ - 2173977 - Networking receive/transmit_bytes metrics values are swapped [rhel-8.6.0.z]
  • BZ - 2180032 - Logs are spammed with ' Domain id=7 is tainted: custom-ga-command' message [rhel-8.6.0.z]
  • BZ - 2181577 - [qemu] snapshot is failing with error libvirt.libvirtError: internal error: QEMU monitor reply exceeds buffer size (10485760 bytes) [rhel-8.6.0.z]