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RHSA-2022:6269: Red Hat Security Advisory: convert2rhel security, bug fix, and enhancement update
An update for convert2rhel is now available for Convert2RHEL for RHEL-8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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.This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original.
Related CVEs:
- CVE-2022-0851: convert2rhel: Activation key passed via command line by code
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Issued:
2022-08-31
Updated:
2022-08-31
RHSA-2022:6269 - Security Advisory
- Overview
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Synopsis
Moderate: convert2rhel security, bug fix, and enhancement update
Type/Severity
Security Advisory: Moderate
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Topic
An update for convert2rhel is now available for Convert2RHEL for RHEL-8.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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.
Description
The convert2rhel package provides the Convert2RHEL utility, which performs operating system conversion. During the conversion process, Convert2RHEL replaces all RPM packages from the original Linux distribution with their Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions.
Security Fix(es):
- convert2rhel: Activation key passed via command line by code (CVE-2022-0851)
Bug Fix(es):
- Using dbus API for RHSM registration to safely pass the activation key
- Verifying GPG key for UBI repositories
Deprecation:
- Deprecated `-f|–password-from-file` parameter option.
Enhancement(s):
- Checking if a new version of convert2rhel is available
- Warning if multiple authentication sources are specified
- Fixed logging error with unavailable RHSM certificate
- Fixed handling shim-x64 package protection on non-UEFI systems
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.
Affected Products
- Convert2RHEL 8 x86_64
Fixes
- BZ - 2060217 - CVE-2022-0851 convert2rhel: Activation key passed via command line by code
- RHELC-126 - Unknown tag in rpm query format call
- RHELC-251 - Move yum clean metadata and yum makecache to the beginning of conversion
- RHELC-332 - Check for a new version available
- RHELC-367 - Update grub bootloader images
- RHELC-411 - Add the ability to take the activation key from a config file rather than the command line
- RHELC-413 - Check whether the user has specified multiple authentication sources and warn if so
- RHELC-45 - Incorrectly logging error with unavailable RHSM certificate
- RHELC-597 - Use dbus API for RHSM registration
- RHELC-678 - Remove UEFI condition from shim-x64 workaround
Convert2RHEL 8
SRPM
convert2rhel-1.0-1.el8.src.rpm
SHA-256: 4a784f990577a4409af00041ce2dcd8ad7fe92278a5c3991ff9cd5f6a47ea0bf
x86_64
convert2rhel-1.0-1.el8.noarch.rpm
SHA-256: 297c68ba7e3412b8047ccde2810379743dc939eaa7e2eb0573729bc5af89d6a6
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Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-6269-01 - The convert2rhel package provides the Convert2RHEL utility, which performs operating system conversion. During the conversion process, Convert2RHEL replaces all RPM packages from the original Linux distribution with their Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions.
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An update for convert2rhel is now available for Convert2RHEL for RHEL-7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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.This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original. Related CVEs: * CVE-2022-0851: convert2rhel: Activation key passed via command line by code
There is a flaw in convert2rhel. When the --activationkey option is used with convert2rhel, the activation key is subsequently passed to subscription-manager via the command line, which could allow unauthorized users locally on the machine to view the activation key via the process command line via e.g. htop or ps. The specific impact varies upon the subscription, but generally this would allow an attacker to register systems purchased by the victim until discovered; a form of fraud. This could occur regardless of how the activation key is supplied to convert2rhel because it involves how convert2rhel provides it to subscription-manager.