RHSA-2022:6392 - Security Advisory

Topic

Updated host packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now available.

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 ovirt-host package consolidates host package requirements into a single meta package.

Security Fix(es):

• moment: inefficient parsing algorithm resulting in DoS (CVE-2022-31129)

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.

Bug Fix(es):

• The hosted-engine-ha binaries have been moved from /usr/share to /usr/libexec. As a result, the hosted-engine --clean-metadata command fails. With this release, you must use the new path for the command to succeed: /usr/libexec/ovirt-hosted-engine-ha/ovirt-ha-agent (BZ#2105781)
• A new warning has been added to the vdsm-tool to protect users from using the unsupported user_friendly_names multipath configuration. The following is an example of the output:

$ vdsm-tool is-configured --module multipath
WARNING: Invalid configuration: 'user_friendly_names' is enabled in multipath configuration:
section1 {
key1 value1
user_friendly_names yes
key2 value2
}
section2 {
user_friendly_names yes
}
This configuration is not supported and may lead to storage domain corruption. (BZ#1793207)

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 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Virtualization Host 4 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Virtualization for IBM Power LE 4 for RHEL 8 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1793207 - [RFE] Notify if multipath User Friendly Names are used
• BZ - 2105075 - CVE-2022-31129 moment: inefficient parsing algorithm resulting in DoS
• BZ - 2105781 - hosted-engine --clean-metadata fails because ovirt-ha-agent has changed location
• BZ - 2117558 - hosted-engine deploy failed since "Failed to configure OVN controller"

CVEs

• CVE-2022-31129

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important