A virt-manager security, bug fix, and enhancement update has been released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Low: virt-manager security, bug fix, and enhancement update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:3464-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3464 Issue date: 2019-11-05
CVE Names: CVE-2019-10183
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1. Summary:

An update for virt-manager is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. 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.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - noarch

3. Description:

Virtual Machine Manager (virt-manager) is a graphical tool for administering virtual machines for KVM, Xen, and Linux Containers (LXC). The virt-manager utility uses the libvirt API and can start, stop, add or remove virtualized devices, connect to a graphical or serial console, and view resource usage statistics for existing virtualized guests on local or remote machines.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: virt-manager (2.2.1). (BZ#1727881)

Security Fix(es):

* virt-install: unattended option leaks password via command line argument (CVE-2019-10183)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Release Notes linked from the References section.
4. Solution:

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

5. Bugs fixed ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

1599139 - RFE: Support genid in virt-manager
1659354 - video devices should be removeable when vm has more than one video devices
1660123 - No spice channel is added for Windows guests
1660467 - Can create a new vm with the MAC address in use on rhel8.0 1661867 - Cannot add a new virtual network: SR-IOV VF pool on rhel8 1666597 - Cannot enable or disable system tray icon
1667025 - Cannot modify guest's name on uefi firmware when creating new vm on rhel 8
1671599 - 'Allocation' under Storage volume quota for qcow2 format volume is redundant
1679018 - RuntimeError: Path does not exist: /var/lib/libvirt/qemu/nvram/test_VARS.fd
1683609 - [RFE] virt-install should add input devices when graphics are enabled
1690685 - Fail to force clone an empty cdrom device
1690687 - Fail to update graphic listen type by virt-xml
1692489 - virt-install fails with "Storage pool not found: no storage pool with matching name 'default'"
1700354 - warn if use of secboot UEFI will overwrite machine to q35 1707379 - virt-install with --sysinfo type=random-string silently defaults to smbios
1709857 - RFE - Ability to add IBPB feature policy to mitigate Spectre v2 for VM guests
1714304 - virt-install --os-variant rhel7 causes stack trace 1718065 - Drop virt-convert from rhel8
1722820 - missing gtksourceview3 dependency
1724287 - Using --wait 0 option in virt-install will return with exit code 1
1726232 - CVE-2019-10183 virt-install: unattended option leaks password via command line argument
1727811 - WARNING Changing machine type from '%s' to 'q35' which is required for UEFI secure boot
1727881 - Rebase virt-manager to current upstream release
1741846 - virt-install man page typo issue for "--launchSecurity" option
6. Package List:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):

Source:
virt-manager-2.2.1-2.el8.src.rpm

noarch:
virt-install-2.2.1-2.el8.noarch.rpm
virt-manager-2.2.1-2.el8.noarch.rpm
virt-manager-common-2.2.1-2.el8.noarch.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/

7. References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-10183
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.1_release_notes/

8. Contact:

The Red Hat security contact is . More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
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