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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RHSA-2013:1603-02 Moderate Luci Security Update

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Calendar Grey November 21, 2013
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Recent enhancements for luci targeting vulnerabilities, fixing issues, and introducing new functionalities on Red Hat Enterprise Linux platforms.
Updated luci packages that fix two security issues, several bugs, and add two enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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/site/articles/11258

Summary

Luci is a web-based high availability administration application.
A flaw was found in the way the luci service was initialized. If a system administrator started the luci service from a directory that was writable to by a local user, that user could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code as the root or luci user. (CVE-2013-4482)
A flaw was found in the way luci generated its configuration file. The file was created as world readable for a short period of time, allowing a local user to gain access to the authentication secrets stored in the configuration file. (CVE-2013-4481)
These issues were discovered by Jan Pokorný of Red Hat.
These updated luci packages include numerous bug fixes and two enhancements. Space precludes documenting all of these changes in this advisory. Users are directed to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 Technical Notes, linked to in the References, for information on the most significant of these changes.
All luci users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues and add these enhancements. After installing this update, the luci service will be restarted automatically.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux moderate severity enhancement luci

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4481 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4482 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.5_Technical_Notes/luci.html#RHSA-2013-1603

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability (v. 6):
Source:
i386: luci-0.26.0-48.el6.i686.rpm luci-debuginfo-0.26.0-48.el6.i686.rpm
x86_64: luci-0.26.0-48.el6.x86_64.rpm luci-debuginfo-0.26.0-48.el6.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage (v. 6):
Source:
i386: luci-0.26.0-48.el6.i686.rpm luci-debuginfo-0.26.0-48.el6.i686.rpm
x86_64: luci-0.26.0-48.el6.x86_64.rpm luci-debuginfo-0.26.0-48.el6.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/#package


Advisory ID: RHSA-2013:1603-02
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:1603.html
Issue date: 2013-11-21

Topic

Updated luci packages that fix two security issues, several bugs, and addtwo enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderatesecurity impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores,which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE links in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux moderate severity enhancement luci

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

878149 - Cluster model unexpectedly empty when no node can be contacted

880363 - Error message displayed with letters separated by commas

883008 - Update support for "cmd_prompt", "login_timeout", "power_timeout", "retry_on", "shell_timeout", and "delay" fence agent attributes

886517 - luci should chkconfig ricci on as part of "enabling cluster services"

886576 - "Remove this instance" button has no effect

917747 - idrac, ilo2, ilo3, ilo4, and imm fence agents are not honored in luci

988998 - CVE-2013-4481 luci: short exposure of authentication secrets while generating configuration file

990321 - CVE-2013-4482 luci: paster hidden untrusted path and "command" (callable association) injection

1001835 - module_name parameter for fence_drac5 is optional, not required

1001836 - fence_ilo denoted as HP iLO / iLO2, but the latter has a separate entry

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