QID 239511

Date Published: 2021-07-29

QID 239511: Red Hat Update for RHV Engine and Host Common Packages (RHSA-2021:2866)

The ovirt-engine package provides the Red Hat Virtualization Manager, a centralized management platform that allows system administrators to view and manage virtual machines. The Manager provides a comprehensive range of features including search capabilities, resource management, live migrations, and virtual infrastructure provisioning.The ovirt-ansible-hosted-engine-setup package provides an Ansible role for deploying Red Hat Virtualization Hosted-Engine.

Security Fix(es): ansible: multiple modules expose secured values (CVE-2021-3447)

Affected Products:

Red Hat Virtualization Manager 4.4 x86_64
Red Hat Virtualization 4 for RHEL 8 x86_64
Red Hat Virtualization for IBM Power LE 4 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le

Note: The preceding description block is extracted directly from the security advisory. Using automation, we have attempted to clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

On successful exploitation, it could allow an attacker to execute code.

  • CVSS V3 rated as Medium - 5.5 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as Low - 2.1 severity.
    • Solution
    Upgrade to the latest packages which contain a patch. Refer to Applying Package Updates to RHEL system for details.

    Refer to Red Hat security advisory RHSA-2021:2866 to address this issue and obtain more information.

    Vendor References

    CVEs related to QID 239511

    CVE-2021-3447 |
    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    RHSA-2021:2866 Red Hat Enterprise Linux URL Logo access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:2866?language=en
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