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Posted on 18 February 2019
RedHat===================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Moderate: rhvm-appliance security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:0361-01
Product: Red Hat Virtualization
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0361
Issue date: 2019-01-29
Updated on: 2019-02-18
CVE Names: CVE-2018-16864 CVE-2018-16865
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1. Summary:
An update for rhvm-appliance is now available for Red Hat Virtualization 4
for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
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.
2. Relevant releases/architectures:
Red Hat Virtualization 4 Hypervisor for RHEL 7 - noarch
Red Hat Virtualization 4 Management Agent for RHEL 7 Hosts - noarch
3. Description:
The RHV-M Virtual Appliance automates the process of installing and
configuring the Red Hat Virtualization Manager. The appliance is available
to download as an OVA file from the Customer Portal.
Security Fix(es):
* systemd: stack overflow when calling syslog from a command with long
cmdline (CVE-2018-16864)
* systemd: stack overflow when receiving many journald entries
(CVE-2018-16865)
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.
4. 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
5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
1653855 - CVE-2018-16864 systemd: stack overflow when calling syslog from a command with long cmdline
1653861 - CVE-2018-16865 systemd: stack overflow when receiving many journald entries
1670464 - RHV-M Appliance tracker for 4.2.8-1
6. Package List:
Red Hat Virtualization 4 Management Agent for RHEL 7 Hosts:
Source:
rhvm-appliance-4.2-20190129.0.el7.src.rpm
noarch:
rhvm-appliance-4.2-20190129.0.el7.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Virtualization 4 Hypervisor for RHEL 7:
Source:
rhvm-appliance-4.2-20190129.0.el7.src.rpm
noarch:
rhvm-appliance-4.2-20190129.0.el7.noarch.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/
7. References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16864
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16865
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
8. Contact:
The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
Copyright 2019 Red Hat, Inc.
