Red Hat Security Advisory: rhev-hypervisor6 security, bug fix, and enhancement update
An updated rhev-hypervisor6 package that fixes three security issues, various bugs, and adds an enhancement is now available. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.
describes (3)
Related CVEs.
| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2012-3411US | medium5.0 | — | ||
Dnsmasq before 2.63test1, when used with certain libvirt configurations, replies to requests from prohibited interfaces, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service… | ||||
| CVE-2012-4542US | medium4.6 | — | ||
block/scsi_ioctl.c in the Linux kernel through 3.8 does not properly consider the SCSI device class during authorization of SCSI commands, which allows local users to bypass intend… | ||||
| CVE-2013-0311US | medium6.5 | — | ||
The translate_desc function in drivers/vhost/vhost.c in the Linux kernel before 3.7 does not properly handle cross-region descriptors, which allows guest OS users to obtain host OS… | ||||
references
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:0579self
- https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258external
- https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Hypervisor_Deployment_Guide/chap-Deployment_Guide-Upgrading_Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization_Hypervisors.htmlexternal
- https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#importantexternal
- 833033external
- 835162external
- 853092external
- 863579external
remediations (3)
- Fixedrhev-hypervisor6-0:6.4-20130221.0.el6.noarch as a component of RHEV Hypervisor for RHEL-6
This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258 To upgrade Hypervisors in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization environments using the disk image provided by this package, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Hypervisor_Deployment_Guide/chap-Deployment_Guide-Upgrading_Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization_Hypervisors.html
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:0579 - Fixedrhev-hypervisor6-0:6.4-20130221.0.el6.noarch as a component of RHEV Hypervisor for RHEL-6
This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258 To upgrade Hypervisors in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization environments using the disk image provided by this package, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Hypervisor_Deployment_Guide/chap-Deployment_Guide-Upgrading_Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization_Hypervisors.html
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:0579 - Fixedrhev-hypervisor6-0:6.4-20130221.0.el6.noarch as a component of RHEV Hypervisor for RHEL-6
This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258 To upgrade Hypervisors in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization environments using the disk image provided by this package, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Hypervisor_Deployment_Guide/chap-Deployment_Guide-Upgrading_Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization_Hypervisors.html
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:0579
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