Important: Red Hat Virtualization security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Synopsis

Important: Red Hat Virtualization security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update for openvswitch4.11, ovn2.11, redhat-release-virtualization-host, and redhat-virtualization-host is now available for Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and Red Hat Virtualization Engine 4.3.

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.

Description

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 ovirt-node-ng 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: openvswitch4.11 (2.11.3), ovn2.11 (2.11.1), redhat-release-virtualization-host (4.3.12), redhat-virtualization-host (4.3.12). (BZ#1898513, BZ#1907537, BZ#1907538)

Security Fix(es):

• lldpd: buffer overflow in the lldp_decode function in daemon/protocols/lldp.c (CVE-2015-8011)
  

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 Manager 4.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Virtualization 4 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Virtualization Host 4 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Virtualization for IBM Power LE 4 for RHEL 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1896536 - CVE-2015-8011 lldpd: buffer overflow in the lldp_decode function in daemon/protocols/lldp.c
• BZ - 1898513 - Rebase RHV-H 4.3 EUS on RHEL-7.9.z #2

CVEs

• CVE-2015-8011

References

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