RHSA-2010:0476: Important: rhev-hypervisor security, bug fix, and enhancement update

First published: Tue Jun 22 2010(Updated: )

The rhev-hypervisor package provides a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization<br>Hypervisor ISO disk image. The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor<br>is a dedicated Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor. It includes<br>everything necessary to run and manage virtual machines: A subset of the<br>Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating environment and the Red Hat Enterprise<br>Virtualization Agent.<br>Note: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor is only available for<br>the Intel 64 and AMD64 architectures with virtualization extensions.<br>A flaw was found in the way QEMU-KVM handled erroneous data provided by the<br>Linux virtio-net driver, used by guest operating systems. Due to a<br>deficiency in the TSO (TCP segment offloading) implementation, a guest's<br>virtio-net driver would transmit improper data to a certain QEMU-KVM<br>process on the host, causing the guest to crash. A remote attacker could<br>use this flaw to send specially-crafted data to a target guest system,<br>causing that guest to crash. (CVE-2010-0741)<br>A flaw was found in the way the Virtual Desktop Server Manager (VDSM)<br>handled the removal of a virtual machine's (VM) data back end (such as an<br>image or a volume). When removing an image or a volume, it was not securely<br>deleted from its corresponding data domain as expected. A guest user in a<br>new, raw VM, created in a data domain that has had VMs deleted from it,<br>could use this flaw to read limited data from those deleted VMs,<br>potentially disclosing sensitive information. (CVE-2010-2223)<br>This updated package provides updated components that include fixes for<br>security issues; however, these issues have no security impact for Red Hat<br>Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor. These fixes are for dbus issue<br>CVE-2009-1189; kernel issues CVE-2010-0307, CVE-2010-0410, CVE-2010-0730,<br>CVE-2010-1085, and CVE-2010-1086; openldap issue CVE-2009-3767; and sudo<br>issues CVE-2010-0426, CVE-2010-0427, and CVE-2010-1163.<br>This update also fixes several bugs and adds several enhancements.<br>Documentation for these bug fixes and enhancements is available from<br><a href="http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization/2.2/html/Servers-5.5-2.2_Hypervisor_Security_Update" target="_blank">http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization/2.2/html/Servers-5.5-2.2_Hypervisor_Security_Update</a> As Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor is based on KVM, the bug<br>fixes and enhancements from the KVM updates RHSA-2010:0271 and<br>RHBA-2010:0419 have been included in this update. Also included are the bug<br>fixes and enhancements from the Virtual Desktop Server Manager (VDSM)<br>update RHSA-2010:0473, and fence-agents update RHBA-2010:0477.<br>KVM: <a href="https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0271.html" target="_blank">https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0271.html</a> and<br><a href="https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2010-0419.html" target="_blank">https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2010-0419.html</a> VDSM: <a href="https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0473.html" target="_blank">https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0473.html</a> fence-agents: <a href="https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2010-0477.html" target="_blank">https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2010-0477.html</a> Users of the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor are advised to<br>upgrade to this updated package, which corrects these issues and adds these<br>enhancements.<br>

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