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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-4747
2015-03-28 23:37:04
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Name        : freeipa
Product     : Fedora 21
Version     : 4.1.4
Release     : 1.fc21
URL         : https://www.freeipa.org/
Summary     : The Identity, Policy and Audit system
Description :
IPA is an integrated solution to provide centrally managed Identity (machine,
user, virtual machines, groups, authentication credentials), Policy
(configuration settings, access control information) and Audit (events,
logs, analysis thereof).

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Update Information:

CVE-2015-1827: It was discovered that the IPA extdom Directory Server plug-in did not correctly perform memory reallocation when handling user account information. A request for a list of groups for a user that belongs to a large number of groups would cause a Directory Server to crash.

CVE-2015-0283: It was discovered that the slapi-nis Directory Server plug-in did not correctly perform memory reallocation when handling user account information. A request for information about a group with many members, or a request for a user that belongs to a large number of groups, would cause a Directory Server to enter an infinite loop and consume an excessive amount of CPU time.

These issues were discovered by Sumit Bose of Red Hat. 
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Mar 26 2015 Alexander Bokovoy  - 4.1.4-1
- Update to upstream 4.1.4 - see https://www.freeipa.org/page/Releases/4.1.4
- fix CVE-2015-1827 (#1206047)
- Require slapi-nis 0.54.2 and newer for CVE-2015-0283 fixes
* Tue Mar 17 2015 Petr Vobornik  - 4.1.3-3
- Timeout ipa-client install if ntp server is unreachable #4842
- Skip time sync during client install when using --no-ntp #4842
* Mon Feb 23 2015 Petr Vobornik  - 4.1.3-2
- require pki-ca >= 10.2.0-5 in Fedora 21
* Wed Feb 18 2015 Petr Vobornik  - 4.1.3-1
- Update to upstream 4.1.3 - see https://www.freeipa.org/page/Releases/4.1.3
* Tue Nov 25 2014 Petr Vobornik  - 4.1.2-1
- Update to upstream 4.1.2 - see https://www.freeipa.org/page/Releases/4.1.2
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1195729 - CVE-2015-0283 slapi-nis: infinite loop in getgrnam_r() and getgrgid_r()
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1195729
  [ 2 ] Bug #1205200 - CVE-2015-1827 ipa: memory corruption when using get_user_grouplist()
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1205200
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use
su -c 'yum update freeipa' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at .

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https://fedoraproject.org/security/
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Fedora 21: freeipa Security Update

April 6, 2015
CVE-2015-1827: It was discovered that the IPA extdom Directory Server plug-in did not correctly perform memory reallocation when handling user account information

Summary

IPA is an integrated solution to provide centrally managed Identity (machine,

user, virtual machines, groups, authentication credentials), Policy

(configuration settings, access control information) and Audit (events,

logs, analysis thereof).

Update Information:

CVE-2015-1827: It was discovered that the IPA extdom Directory Server plug-in did not correctly perform memory reallocation when handling user account information. A request for a list of groups for a user that belongs to a large number of groups would cause a Directory Server to crash.

CVE-2015-0283: It was discovered that the slapi-nis Directory Server plug-in did not correctly perform memory reallocation when handling user account information. A request for information about a group with many members, or a request for a user that belongs to a large number of groups, would cause a Directory Server to enter an infinite loop and consume an excessive amount of CPU time.

These issues were discovered by Sumit Bose of Red Hat.

Change Log

* Thu Mar 26 2015 Alexander Bokovoy - 4.1.4-1 - Update to upstream 4.1.4 - see https://www.freeipa.org/page/Releases/4.1.4 - fix CVE-2015-1827 (#1206047) - Require slapi-nis 0.54.2 and newer for CVE-2015-0283 fixes * Tue Mar 17 2015 Petr Vobornik - 4.1.3-3 - Timeout ipa-client install if ntp server is unreachable #4842 - Skip time sync during client install when using --no-ntp #4842 * Mon Feb 23 2015 Petr Vobornik - 4.1.3-2 - require pki-ca >= 10.2.0-5 in Fedora 21 * Wed Feb 18 2015 Petr Vobornik - 4.1.3-1 - Update to upstream 4.1.3 - see https://www.freeipa.org/page/Releases/4.1.3 * Tue Nov 25 2014 Petr Vobornik - 4.1.2-1 - Update to upstream 4.1.2 - see https://www.freeipa.org/page/Releases/4.1.2

References

[ 1 ] Bug #1195729 - CVE-2015-0283 slapi-nis: infinite loop in getgrnam_r() and getgrgid_r() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1195729 [ 2 ] Bug #1205200 - CVE-2015-1827 ipa: memory corruption when using get_user_grouplist() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1205200

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update freeipa' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

Severity
Name : freeipa
Product : Fedora 21
Version : 4.1.4
Release : 1.fc21
URL : https://www.freeipa.org/
Summary : The Identity, Policy and Audit system

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