- Issued:
- 2012-11-06
- Updated:
- 2012-11-06
RHBA-2012:1424 - Bug Fix Advisory
Synopsis
rhev-hypervisor6 bug fix update
Type/Severity
Bug Fix Advisory
Red Hat Insights patch analysis
Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.
Topic
An updated rhev-hypervisor6 package that fixes several bugs is now
available.
Description
The rhev-hypervisor6 package provides a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
Hypervisor ISO disk image. The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
Hypervisor is a dedicated Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor.
It includes everything necessary to run and manage virtual machines: A
subset of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating environment and the Red
Hat Enterprise Virtualization Agent.
Note: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor is only available for
the Intel 64 and AMD64 architectures with virtualization extensions.
This updated package provides updated components that include fixes for
various security issues. These issues have no security impact on Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor itself, however. The security fixes
included in this update address the following CVE numbers:
CVE-2012-5166 (bind issue)
CVE-2012-1568, CVE-2012-2133, CVE-2012-3400, and CVE-2012-3511 (kernel issues)
This update includes the ovirt-node build from RHBA-2012:1425:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2012-1425.html
Users of the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor are advised to
upgrade to this updated package, which fixes these issues.
Solution
Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.
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 2.2
environments using the disk image provided by this package, refer to:
To upgrade Hypervisors in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0
environments using the disk image provided by this package, refer to:
Affected Products
- Red Hat Virtualization 6 x86_64
Fixes
- BZ - 869299 - rhev-hypervisor 6.3 Update 6 release
CVEs
(none)
Red Hat Virtualization 6
SRPM | |
---|---|
rhev-hypervisor6-6.3-20121025.0.el6_3.src.rpm | SHA-256: 25d16b091e4c4fc141bf0054fd4992d4011568950018769c25398ab94c4af084 |
x86_64 | |
rhev-hypervisor6-6.3-20121025.0.el6_3.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 20c6df05c61c5177d64834747c73a1a6a49906a0dbf4b515928cb40e1c80c32c |
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