RHEL 8 : RHV Appliance (rhvm-appliance) security update [ovirt-4.5.0] (Moderate) (RHSA-2022:4931)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 161965

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for RHV Appliance (rhvm-appliance).

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:4931 advisory.

The RHV-M 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):

* postgresql: memory disclosure in certain queries (CVE-2021-3677)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Bug Fix(es):

* RHV-M Appliance rebased on RHEL 8.6 (BZ#1997073)

* Previously, a self-hosted engine deployment failed when an OpenSCAP security profile was applied, resulting in the SSH key permissions being changed to 0640. In this release, the permissions are not changed and the deployment succeeds. (BZ#2011309)

* rng-tools, rsyslog-gnutls, usbguard packages added to the RHV-M Appliance to comply with DISA-STIG profile requirements (BZ#2070963)

* OVA package manifest added to the RHV-M Appliance RPM. (BZ#2070980)

* Previously, the nodejs package was downgraded during the RHV-M installation.
In this release, the correct version of the nodejs package is installed and maintained. (BZ#2075852)

* RHV-M Appliance rebased on Ceph 4.3 (BZ#2090137)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL RHV Appliance (rhvm-appliance) package based on the guidance in RHSA-2022:4931.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 161965

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-4931.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 6/8/2022

Updated: 11/7/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3677

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rhvm-appliance, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/7/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/12/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3677

CWE: 200

RHSA: 2022:4931

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