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rhsa-2024_0033

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Published

2024-01-03 14:10

Modified

2024-11-23 01:14

Summary

Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Virtualization Host 4.4.z SP 1 security update

Notes

Topic

An update for redhat-release-virtualization-host and redhat-virtualization-host is now available for Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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.

Details

The redhat-virtualization-host packages provide the Red Hat Virtualization Host. These packages include redhat-release-virtualization-host, ovirt-node, and rhev-hypervisor. Red Hat Virtualization Hosts (RHVH) are installed using a special build of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with only the packages required to host virtual machines. RHVH features a Cockpit user interface for monitoring the host's resources and performing administrative tasks. Security Fix(es): 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.

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cve-2023-4911

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2023-10-03 17:25

Modified

2024-11-23 01:12

Severity ?

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

Glibc: buffer overflow in ld.so leading to privilege escalation

References

▼	URL	Tags
	https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5453	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
	https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5454	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
	https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5455	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
	https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5476	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
	https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0033	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
	https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4911	vdb-entry, x_refsource_REDHAT
	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2238352	issue-tracking, x_refsource_REDHAT
	https://www.qualys.com/2023/10/03/cve-2023-4911/looney-tunables-local-privilege-escalation-glibc-ld-so.txt
	https://www.qualys.com/cve-2023-4911/

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

▼

Version: 2.34 < 2.39

Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Unaffected: 0:2.28-225.el8_8.6 < * cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::baseos cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::crb cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::appstream
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Unaffected: 0:2.28-225.el8_8.6 < * cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::baseos cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::crb cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::appstream
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support	Unaffected: 0:2.28-189.6.el8_6 < * cpe:/o:redhat:rhev_hypervisor:4.4::el8 cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:8.6::crb cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:8.6::appstream cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.6::baseos
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	Unaffected: 0:2.34-60.el9_2.7 < * cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::crb cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::baseos
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	Unaffected: 0:2.34-60.el9_2.7 < * cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::crb cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::baseos
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Extended Update Support	Unaffected: 0:2.34-28.el9_0.4 < * cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:9.0::crb cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:9.0::appstream cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.0::baseos
Red Hat	Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Unaffected: 0:2.28-189.6.el8_6 < * cpe:/o:redhat:rhev_hypervisor:4.4::el8 cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:8.6::crb cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:8.6::appstream cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.6::baseos
Red Hat	Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Unaffected: 0:4.5.3-10.el8ev < * cpe:/o:redhat:rhev_hypervisor:4.4::el8
Red Hat	Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Unaffected: 0:4.5.3-202312060823_8.6 < * cpe:/o:redhat:rhev_hypervisor:4.4::el8
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

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          "value": "For customers who cannot update immediately and do not have Secure Boot feature enabled, the issue can be mitigated using the provided SystemTap script with the following steps.  When enabled, any setuid program invoked with GLIBC_TUNABLES in the environment will be terminated immediately.  To invoke the setuid program, users will then have to unset or clear the GLIBC_TUNABLES envvar, e.g. `GLIBC_TUNABLES= sudo` . \n\nNote that these mitigation steps will need to be repeated if the system is rebooted.\n\n1)    Install required systemtap packages and dependencies as per - https://access.redhat.com/solutions/5441\n\n\n2)    Create the following systemtap script, and name it stap_block_suid_tunables.stp:\n    ~~~\nfunction has_tunable_string:long()\n{\n  name = \"GLIBC_TUNABLES\"\n\n  mm = @task(task_current())-\u003emm;\n  if (mm)\n    {\n      env_start = @mm(mm)-\u003eenv_start;\n      env_end = @mm(mm)-\u003eenv_end;\n\n      if (env_start != 0 \u0026\u0026 env_end != 0)\n        while (env_end \u003e env_start)\n          {\n            cur = user_string(env_start, \"\");\n            env_name = tokenize(cur, \"=\");\n      \n            if (env_name == name \u0026\u0026 tokenize(\"\", \"\") != \"\")\n              return 1;\n            env_start += strlen (cur) + 1\n          }\n    }\n\n  return 0;\n}\n\nprobe process(\"/lib*/ld*.so*\").function(\"__tunables_init\")\n{\n  atsecure = 0;\n  /* Skip processing if we can\u0027t read __libc_enable_secure, e.g. core dump\n     handler (systemd-cgroups-agent and systemd-coredump).  */\n  try { atsecure = @var(\"__libc_enable_secure\"); }\n  catch { printk (4, sprintf (\"CVE-2023-4911: Skipped check: %s (%d)\", execname(), pid())); }\n  if (atsecure \u0026\u0026 has_tunable_string ())\n    raise (9);\n}\n~~~\n\n3) Load the systemtap module into the running kernel:\n    ~~~\n    stap -g -F -m stap_block_suid_tunables stap_block_suid_tunables.stp\n    ~~~\n\n4) Ensure the module is loaded:\n    ~~~\n     lsmod | grep -i stap_block_suid_tunables\nstap_block_suid_tunables     249856  0\n~~~\n\n5) Once the glibc package is updated to the version containing the fix, the systemtap generated kernel module can be removed by running:\n    ~~~\n    rmmod stap_block_suid_tunables\n    ~~~\n\nIf Secure Boot is enabled on a system, the SystemTap module must be signed. An external compiling server can be used to sign the generated kernel module with a key enrolled into the kernel\u0027s keyring or starting with SystemTap 4.7 you can sign a module without a compile server. See further information here - https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/secure-boot-systemtap"
        }
      ],
      "x_redhatCweChain": "CWE-122: Heap-based Buffer Overflow"
    }
  },
  "cveMetadata": {
    "assignerOrgId": "53f830b8-0a3f-465b-8143-3b8a9948e749",
    "assignerShortName": "redhat",
    "cveId": "CVE-2023-4911",
    "datePublished": "2023-10-03T17:25:08.434Z",
    "dateReserved": "2023-09-12T13:10:32.495Z",
    "dateUpdated": "2024-11-23T01:12:42.567Z",
    "state": "PUBLISHED"
  },
  "dataType": "CVE_RECORD",
  "dataVersion": "5.1"
}

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