Moderate: rhvm-appliance security update

Synopsis

Moderate: rhvm-appliance security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update for rhvm-appliance 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 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

The RHV-M Virtual Appliance automates the process of installing and configuring the Red Hat Virtualization Manager. The appliance is available to download as an OVA file from the Customer Portal.

Security Fix(es):

• systemd: stack overflow when calling syslog from a command with long cmdline (CVE-2018-16864)
  
• systemd: stack overflow when receiving many journald entries (CVE-2018-16865)
  

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

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

• Red Hat Virtualization 4 x86_64
• Red Hat Virtualization Host 4 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1653855 - CVE-2018-16864 systemd: stack overflow when calling syslog from a command with long cmdline
• BZ - 1653861 - CVE-2018-16865 systemd: stack overflow when receiving many journald entries
• BZ - 1670464 - RHV-M Appliance tracker for 4.2.8-1

CVEs

• CVE-2018-16864
• CVE-2018-16865

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate