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Red Hat OpenShift 3.1 RHSA-2016:0711-01 Important: Jenkins Remote Access

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Calendar Grey May 3, 2016
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Crucial Jenkins patch addresses several vulnerabilities impacting Red Hat OpenShift. All users advised to upgrade.
An updated Jenkins package and image that include a security fix are now available for Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

The Red Hat Enterprise Linux container images provided by this update can be downloaded from the Red Hat Container Registry at registry.access.redhat.com using the "docker pull" command. Dockerfiles and scripts should be amended either to refer to this new image specifically, or to the latest image generally.

The packages in this update are 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/articles/11258.

Summary

OpenShift Enterprise by Red Hat is the company's cloud computing Platform- as-a-Service (PaaS) solution designed for on-premise or private cloud deployments.
Jenkins is a continuous integration server that monitors executions of repeated jobs, such as building a software project or jobs run by cron.
Security Fix(es):
The Jenkins continuous integration server has been updated to upstream version 1.642.2 LTS that addresses a large number of security issues, including XSS, CSRF, information disclosure, and code execution. (CVE-2016-0788, CVE-2016-0789, CVE-2016-0790, CVE-2016-0791, CVE-2016-0792)
Refer to the changelog listed in the References section for a list of changes.
This update includes the following image:
openshift3/jenkins-1-rhel7:1.642-30
All OpenShift Enterprise 3.1 users are advised to upgrade to the updated package and image.

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security advisory code execution remote access security fix important Red Hat OpenShift Jenkins

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0788 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0789 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0790 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0791 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0792 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important https://www.jenkins.io/security/advisory/2016-02-24/ https://www.jenkins.io/changelog-stable/

Package List

Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1:
Source: jenkins-1.642.2-1.el7.src.rpm jenkins-plugin-credentials-1.24-2.el7.src.rpm jenkins-plugin-durable-task-1.7-1.el7.src.rpm jenkins-plugin-kubernetes-0.5-1.el7.src.rpm jenkins-plugin-openshift-pipeline-1.0.9-1.el7.src.rpm
noarch: jenkins-1.642.2-1.el7.noarch.rpm
x86_64: jenkins-plugin-credentials-1.24-2.el7.x86_64.rpm jenkins-plugin-durable-task-1.7-1.el7.x86_64.rpm jenkins-plugin-kubernetes-0.5-1.el7.x86_64.rpm jenkins-plugin-openshift-pipeline-1.0.9-1.el7.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/


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2016:0711-01
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0711
Issue date: 2016-05-03

Topic

An updated Jenkins package and image that include a security fix are now available for Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory code execution remote access security fix important Red Hat OpenShift Jenkins

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1 - noarch, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1311946 - CVE-2016-0788 jenkins: Remote code execution vulnerability in remoting module (SECURITY-232)

1311947 - CVE-2016-0789 jenkins: HTTP response splitting vulnerability (SECURITY-238)

1311948 - CVE-2016-0790 jenkins: Non-constant time comparison of API token (SECURITY-241)

1311949 - CVE-2016-0791 jenkins: Non-constant time comparison of CSRF crumbs (SECURITY-245)

1311950 - CVE-2016-0792 jenkins: Remote code execution through remote API (SECURITY-247)

1324664 - Update openshift jenkins images for CVE-2016-0788 CVE-2016-0789 CVE-2016-0790 CVE-2016-0791 CVE-2016-0792

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