RHSA-2016:0426 - Security Advisory

Topic

Updated redhat-support-plugin-rhev packages that fix a security flaw
and a bug are now available.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important
security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base
scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each
vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

Description

The Red Hat Support plug-in for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
offers seamless integrated access to Red Hat subscription services
from the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization administration portal. The
plug-in provides automated functionality that enables quicker help,
answers, and proactive services. It offers easy and instant access to
Red Hat exclusive knowledge, resources, engagement, and diagnostic
features.

It was found that redhat-support-plugin-rhev passed a user-specified
path and file name directly to the command line in the log viewer
component. This could allow users with the SuperUser role on any
Entity to execute arbitrary commands on any host in the RHEV
environment. (CVE-2015-7544)

All Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager users are advised to
upgrade to these updated packages.

Solution

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

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

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

Affected Products

• Red Hat Virtualization 3.6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1138310 - [Tracker] - Building redhat-support-plugin-rhev for 3.6
• BZ - 1173074 - Red Hat Access: Support stucked after upload failure
• BZ - 1269588 - CVE-2015-7544 redhat-support-plugin-rhev: Remote code execution by SuperUser role on hosts in RHEV

CVEs

• CVE-2015-7544

References

• http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#normal