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Red Hat: RHSA-2016:1797-01 Moderate: ipa Certificate Issue

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Calendar Grey September 1, 2016
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The Ubuntu Server security patch resolves a critical flaw in access rights that impacts key management.
An update for ipa is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

Red Hat Identity Management (IdM) is a centralized authentication, identity management, and authorization solution for both traditional and cloud-based enterprise environments.
Security Fix(es):
* An insufficient permission check issue was found in the way IPA server treats certificate revocation requests. An attacker logged in with the 'retrieve certificate' permission enabled could use this flaw to revoke certificates, possibly triggering a denial of service attack. (CVE-2016-5404)
This issue was discovered by Fraser Tweedale (Red Hat).

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service Red Hat Enterprise Linux moderate severity ipa certificate issue

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5404 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6):
Source: ipa-3.0.0-50.el6_8.2.src.rpm
i386: ipa-client-3.0.0-50.el6_8.2.i686.rpm ipa-debuginfo-3.0.0-50.el6_8.2.i686.rpm ipa-python-3.0.0-50.el6_8.2.i686.rpm
x86_64: ipa-client-3.0.0-50.el6_8.2.x86_64.rpm ipa-debuginfo-3.0.0-50.el6_8.2.x86_64.rpm ipa-python-3.0.0-50.el6_8.2.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6):
i386: ipa-admintools-3.0.0-50.el6_8.2.i686.rpm ipa-debuginfo-3.0.0-50.el6_8.2.i686.rpm ipa-server-3.0.0-50.el6_8.2.i686.rpm ipa-server-selinux-3.0.0-50.el6_8.2.i686.rpm ipa-server-trust-ad-3.0.0-50.el6_8.2.i686.rpm
x86_64: ipa-admintools-3.0.0-50.el6_8.2.x86_64.rpm ipa-debuginfo-3.0.0-50.el6_8.2.x86_64.rpm ipa-server-3.0.0-50.el6_8.2.x86_64.rpm ipa-server-selinux-3.0.0-50.el6_8.2.x86_64.rpm ipa-server-trust-ad-3.0.0-50.el6_8.2.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6):
Source: ipa-3.0.0-50.el6_8.2.src.rpm
x86_64: ipa-client-3.0.0-50.el6_8.2.x86_64.rpm ipa-debuginfo-3.0.0-50.el6_8.2.x86_64.rpm ipa-python-3.0.0-50.el6_8.2.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6):
x86_64: ipa-admintools-3.0.0-50.el6_8.2.x86_64.rpm ipa-debuginfo-3.0.0-50.el6_8.2.x86_64.rpm ipa-server-3.0.0-50.el6_8.2.x86_64.rpm ipa-server-selinux-3.0.0-50.el6_8.2.x86_64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2016:1797-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1797.html
Issue date: 2016-09-01

Topic

An update for ipa is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and RedHat Enterprise Linux 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service Red Hat Enterprise Linux moderate severity ipa certificate issue

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) - i386, ppc64, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1351593 - CVE-2016-5404 ipa: Insufficient privileges check in certificate revocation

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