RHSA-2018:2643: Important: rhvm-appliance security update

Published Aug 15, 2018
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Updated

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.<br>The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: rhvm-appliance (4.2). (BZ#1590658, BZ#1591095, BZ#1591096, BZ#1592655, BZ#1594636, BZ#1597534, BZ#1612683)<br>Red Hat would like to thank the PostgreSQL project for reporting CVE-2018-10915 and Ammarit Thongthua (Deloitte Thailand Pentest team) and Nattakit Intarasorn (Deloitte Thailand Pentest team) for reporting CVE-2018-1067. Upstream acknowledges Andrew Krasichkov as the original reporter of CVE-2018-10915.<br>Security fixes:<br><li> vulnerability: wildfly-core: Path traversal can allow the extraction of .war archives to write arbitrary files (Zip Slip) (CVE-2018-10862)</li> <li> vulnerability: apache-cxf: TLS hostname verification does not work correctly with com.sun.net.ssl. (CVE-2018-8039)</li> <li> vulnerability: postgresql: Certain host connection parameters defeat client-side security defenses (CVE-2018-10915)</li> <li> vulnerability: undertow: HTTP header injection using CRLF with UTF-8 Encoding (incomplete fix of ) (CVE-2018-1067, CVE-2016-4993)</li> <li> vulnerability: undertow: File descriptor leak caused by JarURLConnection.getLastModified() allows attacker to cause a denial of service (CVE-2018-1114)</li> <li> vulnerability: guava: Unbounded memory allocation in AtomicDoubleArray and CompoundOrdering classes allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CVE-2018-10237)</li> <li> vulnerability: bouncycastle: flaw in the low-level interface to RSA key pair generator (CVE-2018-1000180)</li> For more details about the security issues, including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE pages listed in the References section.

Affected Software

2 affected componentsFixes available
redhat/rhvm-appliance<4.2-20180828.0.el7
4.2-20180828.0.el7
redhat/rhvm-appliance<4.2-20180828.0.el7
4.2-20180828.0.el7

Remediation

Event History

Jul 9, 2025
Advisory Published
via Red Hat·02:05 AM
Data Sourced
via Red Hat·02:05 AM
RemedyDescriptionAffected Software
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Frequently Asked Questions

1

What is the severity of RHSA-2018:2643?

The severity of RHSA-2018:2643 is classified as important.

2

How do I fix RHSA-2018:2643?

To fix RHSA-2018:2643, upgrade the rhvm-appliance package to version 4.2-20180828.0.el7.

3

What software is affected by RHSA-2018:2643?

RHSA-2018:2643 affects the rhvm-appliance package version 4.2-20180828.0.el7.

4

When was RHSA-2018:2643 released?

RHSA-2018:2643 was released on August 28, 2018.

5

Is there a workaround for RHSA-2018:2643?

Currently, there is no documented workaround for RHSA-2018:2643 aside from applying the available updates.

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