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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2010:0473 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2010-06-22
Updated:
2010-06-22

RHSA-2010:0473 - Security Advisory

  • Overview
  • Updated Packages

Synopsis

Moderate: vdsm security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

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Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.

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Topic

Updated vdsm packages that fix one security issue, various bugs, and add
two enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate
security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,
which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in
the References section.

Description

The Virtual Desktop Server Manager (VDSM) is a management module that
serves as a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager (RHEV-M) agent on Red
Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor (RHEV-H) or Red Hat Enterprise
Linux hosts. VDSM allows RHEV-M to manage virtual machines and storage
pools, and retrieve statistics from both hosts and guests.

A flaw was found in the way VDSM handled the removal of a virtual machine's
(VM) data back end (such as an image or a volume). When removing an image
or a volume, it was not securely deleted from its corresponding data domain
as expected. A guest user in a new, raw VM, created in a data domain that
has had VMs deleted from it, could use this flaw to read limited data from
those deleted VMs, potentially disclosing sensitive information.
(CVE-2010-2223)

These updated vdsm packages also fix the following bugs:

  • Kernel Samepage Merging (KSM) did not use all the available memory (due

to the memory not being zero-filled) if the memory did not belong to the
Linux guest. Thus, KSM was not effective in distributing the memory to the
Linux guests with the result of shared memory being unavailable for Linux
guests. With this update, KSM allows multiple Linux guests to share the
memory. (BZ#527405)

  • the vds_bootstrap script failed when the host's temporary directory was

located on a different partition, with the following error:

[Errno 18] Invalid cross-device link using os.rename

With this update, vds_bootstrap no longer fails. (BZ#530322)

  • vds_bootstrap failed to add a host to RHEV-M when the 'cpuspeed' and the

'libvirt' services were not found. With this update, the host is added to
RHEV-M even when the aforementioned services are not present in the system.
(BZ#538751)

  • previously, vds_bootstrap attempted to parse blank lines present in

network scripts (for example, /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0).
As a consequence, if a network script contained blank lines, vds_bootstrap
failed and an error such as follows was written to /var/vdsm/vdsm.log (the
error example below is consequent to the blank line being present in
ifcfg-eth0):

getBridgeParams: failed to read params of file
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
Error:list index out of range

With this update, vds_bootstrap filters blank lines in network
configuration files, ensuring it does not fail if they are present.
(BZ#540479)

  • the 'pool connect' utility did not save the master domain's information

to the disk. If VDSM was restarted, auto-reconnect searched for a master
domain with the highest version. If the master domain was not available at
that time, an incorrect domain was chosen as the master. With this update,
the correct domain is chosen as the master. (BZ#543432)

  • when using the RHEV-M interface to manage high-availability VMs, power

down requests were not honored. Consequently, some high-availability
virtual machines automatically rebooted instead of shutting down after they
received a command to shut down. High-availability VMs now correctly
process requests to shut down, with the result that no VMs incorrectly
reboot instead. (BZ#547112)

  • after a host installation, the 'multipathd' service would restart when

the host was started from a multipath device. With this update, the
'multipathd' service no longer restarts. (BZ#547305)

These updated vdsm packages also add the following enhancements:

  • previously, import/export of VMs was not supported. With this update

import/export have been implemented. (BZ#482608)

  • previously, the ISO image domain could not be shared with multiple Data

Centers. The user had to define an independent ISO domain for each Data
Center. With this update, the ISO image domain can be shared between
multiple Data Centers. (BZ#496448)

All vdsm users should upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve
these issues and add these enhancements.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to
use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Virtualization 3 for RHEL 5 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 604752 - CVE-2010-2223 vdsm: missing VM post-zeroing after removal

CVEs

  • CVE-2010-2223

References

  • http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
Note: More recent versions of these packages may be available. Click a package name for more details.

Red Hat Virtualization 3 for RHEL 5

SRPM
vdsm22-4.5-62.el5rhev.src.rpm SHA-256: a8573b9c2c8d87bb9c966b3ae1b02c5538825cb4a6d3c18aece17d07fd049e9e
x86_64
vdsm22-4.5-62.el5rhev.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: b9c45c33e70d7236f4a7a390cd7df7cae968a428865c72897aeb1af99a735434
vdsm22-cli-4.5-62.el5rhev.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 9dafb2fdecabb42dba85f8ec91d9f2470a3e0c31de19ed34bd05439459acf711

The Red Hat security contact is secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.

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