Synopsis

Important: rhvm-appliance security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

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 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 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.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: rhvm-appliance (4.2). (BZ#1590658, BZ#1591095, BZ#1591096, BZ#1592655, BZ#1594636, BZ#1597534, BZ#1612683)

Red Hat would like to thank the PostgreSQL project for reporting CVE-2018-10915 and Ammarit Thongthua (Deloitte Thailand Pentest team) and Nattakit Intarasorn (Deloitte Thailand Pentest team) for reporting CVE-2018-1067. Upstream acknowledges Andrew Krasichkov as the original reporter of CVE-2018-10915.

Security fixes:

• vulnerability: wildfly-core: Path traversal can allow the extraction of .war archives to write arbitrary files (Zip Slip) (CVE-2018-10862)
• vulnerability: apache-cxf: TLS hostname verification does not work correctly with com.sun.net.ssl.* (CVE-2018-8039)
• vulnerability: postgresql: Certain host connection parameters defeat client-side security defenses (CVE-2018-10915)
• vulnerability: undertow: HTTP header injection using CRLF with UTF-8 Encoding (incomplete fix of ) (CVE-2018-1067, CVE-2016-4993)
• vulnerability: undertow: File descriptor leak caused by JarURLConnection.getLastModified() allows attacker to cause a denial of service (CVE-2018-1114)
• vulnerability: guava: Unbounded memory allocation in AtomicDoubleArray and CompoundOrdering classes allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CVE-2018-10237)
• vulnerability: bouncycastle: flaw in the low-level interface to RSA key pair generator (CVE-2018-1000180)

For more details about the security issues, including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE pages 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 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Virtualization Host 4 for RHEL 7 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1550671 - CVE-2018-1067 undertow: HTTP header injection using CRLF with UTF-8 Encoding (incomplete fix of CVE-2016-4993)
• BZ - 1573045 - CVE-2018-1114 undertow: File descriptor leak caused by JarURLConnection.getLastModified() allows attacker to cause a denial of service
• BZ - 1573391 - CVE-2018-10237 guava: Unbounded memory allocation in AtomicDoubleArray and CompoundOrdering classes allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service
• BZ - 1588306 - CVE-2018-1000180 bouncycastle: flaw in the low-level interface to RSA key pair generator
• BZ - 1593527 - CVE-2018-10862 wildfly-core: Path traversal can allow the extraction of .war archives to write arbitrary files (Zip Slip)
• BZ - 1595332 - CVE-2018-8039 apache-cxf: TLS hostname verification does not work correctly with com.sun.net.ssl.*
• BZ - 1609891 - CVE-2018-10915 postgresql: Certain host connection parameters defeat client-side security defenses
• BZ - 1616249 - [Tracker] rhevm-appliance build for 4.2.6

CVEs

• CVE-2018-1067
• CVE-2018-1114
• CVE-2018-8039
• CVE-2018-10237
• CVE-2018-10862
• CVE-2018-10915
• CVE-2018-1000180

References