Synopsis

Low: osinfo-db and libosinfo security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Low

Topic

An update for osinfo-db, osinfo-db-tools, libosinfo, and gnome-boxes is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. 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 osinfo-db package contains a database that provides information about operating systems and hypervisor platforms to facilitate the automated configuration and provisioning of new virtual machines.

The libosinfo packages provide a library that allows virtualization provisioning tools to determine the optimal device settings for a combination of hypervisor and operating system.

Security Fix(es):

• Libosinfo: osinfo-install-script option leaks password via command line argument (CVE-2019-13313)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Release Notes linked from 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/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 1685364 - Add win2019 to libosinfo
• BZ - 1689817 - virt-manager cannot detect operating system name for rhel8.0.0 tree automatically
• BZ - 1699988 - Rebase to the latest upstream release
• BZ - 1699989 - Rebase to the latest upstream release
• BZ - 1699990 - Rebase to the latest upstream release
• BZ - 1703480 - RHEL-8.0.x is not detected as RHEL-8.0
• BZ - 1713130 - gnome-boxes does not show RHEL-8 logo in Source Selection
• BZ - 1713245 - Add rhel-8.1 and rhel-7.7 entries
• BZ - 1727766 - CVE-2019-13313 Libosinfo: osinfo-install-script option leaks password via command line argument
• BZ - 1739897 - RHEL8.1 ppc64le iso is recognized as x86_64 by Boxes (Source Selection)

CVEs

• CVE-2019-13313

References