RHSA-2023:5209 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for redhat-release-virtualization-host and redhat-virtualization-host is now available for Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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 redhat-virtualization-host packages provide the Red Hat Virtualization Host. These packages include redhat-release-virtualization-host, ovirt-node, and rhev-hypervisor. Red Hat Virtualization Hosts (RHVH) are installed using a special build of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with only the packages required to host virtual machines. RHVH features a Cockpit user interface for monitoring the host's resources and performing administrative tasks.

Security Fix(es):

• kernel: Intel firmware update for insufficient granularity of access control in out-of-band management in some Intel Atom and Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (CVE-2022-21216)
• kernel: Intel firmware update for Incorrect default permissions in some memory controller configurations (CVE-2022-33196)
• openssl: X.400 address type confusion in X.509 GeneralName (CVE-2023-0286)

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/2974891

Affected Products

• Red Hat Virtualization 4 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Virtualization Host 4 for RHEL 8 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2164440 - CVE-2023-0286 openssl: X.400 address type confusion in X.509 GeneralName
• BZ - 2171227 - CVE-2022-21216 kernel: Intel firmware update for insufficient granularity of access control in out-of-band management in some Intel Atom and Intel Xeon Scalable Processors
• BZ - 2171252 - CVE-2022-33196 kernel: Intel firmware update for Incorrect default permissions in some memory controller configurations

CVEs

• CVE-2022-21216
• CVE-2022-33196
• CVE-2023-0286

References

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