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Security update for kubevirt, virt-api-container, virt-controller-container, virt-handler-container, virt-launcher-container, virt-libguestfs-tools-container, virt-operator-container (important)

An update that solves three vulnerabilities and has two
fixes is now available.

Description:

This update for kubevirt, virt-api-container, virt-controller-container,
virt-handler-container, virt-launcher-container,
virt-libguestfs-tools-container, virt-operator-container fixes the
following issues:

The kubevirt stack was updated to version 0.54.0

Release notes https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/releases/tag/v0.54.0

Security fixes:

– CVE-2022-1798: Fix arbitrary file read on the host from KubeVirt VMs
(bsc#1202516)

Security fixes in vendored dependencies:

– CVE-2022-1996: Fixed go-restful CORS bypass bsc#1200528)
– CVE-2022-29162: Fixed runc incorrect handling of inheritable
capabilities in default configuration (bsc#1199460)

– Fix containerdisk unmount logic
– Support topology spread constraints
– Update libvirt-go to fix memory leak
– Pack nft rules and nsswitch.conf for virt-handler
– Only create 1MiB-aligned disk images (bsc#1199603)
– Avoid to return nil failure message
– Use semantic equality comparison
– Drop kubevirt-psp-caasp.yaml
– Allow to configure utility containers for update test
– Symlink nsswitch.conf and nft rules to proper locations
– Drop unused package libvirt-client
– Install vim-small instead of vim
– Remove unneeded libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-core
– Install missing packages ethtool and gawk. Fixes bsc#1199392

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods
like YaST online_update or “zypper patch”.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

– openSUSE Leap 15.4:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.4-2022-3333=1

– SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Containers 15-SP4:

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Containers-15-SP4-2022-3333=1Read More

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