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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2022:6269 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2022-08-31
Updated:
2022-08-31

RHSA-2022:6269 - Security Advisory

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Synopsis

Moderate: convert2rhel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Red Hat Insights patch analysis

Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.

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Topic

An update for convert2rhel is now available for Convert2RHEL for RHEL-8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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 versions.

Security Fix(es):

  • convert2rhel: Activation key passed via command line by code (CVE-2022-0851)

Bug Fix(es):

  • Using dbus API for RHSM registration to safely pass the activation key
  • Verifying GPG key for UBI repositories

Deprecation:

  • Deprecated `-f|--password-from-file` parameter option.

Enhancement(s):

  • Checking if a new version of convert2rhel is available
  • Warning if multiple authentication sources are specified
  • Fixed logging error with unavailable RHSM certificate
  • Fixed handling shim-x64 package protection on non-UEFI systems

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 8 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 2060217 - CVE-2022-0851 convert2rhel: Activation key passed via command line by code
  • RHELC-126 - Unknown tag in rpm query format call
  • RHELC-251 - Move yum clean metadata and yum makecache to the beginning of conversion
  • RHELC-332 - Check for a new version available
  • RHELC-367 - Update grub bootloader images
  • RHELC-411 - Add the ability to take the activation key from a config file rather than the command line
  • RHELC-413 - Check whether the user has specified multiple authentication sources and warn if so
  • RHELC-45 - Incorrectly logging error with unavailable RHSM certificate
  • RHELC-597 - Use dbus API for RHSM registration
  • RHELC-678 - Remove UEFI condition from shim-x64 workaround

CVEs

  • CVE-2022-0851

References

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

Convert2RHEL 8

SRPM
convert2rhel-1.0-1.el8.src.rpm SHA-256: 4a784f990577a4409af00041ce2dcd8ad7fe92278a5c3991ff9cd5f6a47ea0bf
x86_64
convert2rhel-1.0-1.el8.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 297c68ba7e3412b8047ccde2810379743dc939eaa7e2eb0573729bc5af89d6a6

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

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