RHSA-2022:1618 - Security Advisory

Topic

A security update for convert2rhel is now available for unsupported conversions of CentOS Linux 6 and Oracle Linux 6 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

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 convert2rhel package provides the Convert2RHEL utility, which performs operating system conversion. During the conversion process, Convert2RHEL replaces all RPM packages from the original Linux distribution with their Red Hat Enterprise Linux version.

Security fix:

• convert2rhel: Red Hat account password passed via command line by code

(CVE-2022-0852)

Enhancement:

• Enable the conversion of untested 8.6 to 8.10 on release day

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/11258

Affected Products

• Convert2RHEL 6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2060129 - CVE-2022-0852 convert2rhel: Red Hat account password passed via command line by code

CVEs

• CVE-2022-0852

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://access.redhat.com/articles/2360841
• https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/convert2rhel-support