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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RHSA-2016:2597-02 Moderate Firewalld Bug Fix

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Calendar Grey November 3, 2016
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CentOS rolls out a significant patch for SELinux rectifying vulnerabilities and performance concerns for its Stream 8 installations.
An update for firewalld is now available for 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

firewalld is a firewall service daemon that provides a dynamic customizable firewall with a D-Bus interface.
The following packages have been upgraded to a newer upstream version: firewalld (0.4.3.2). (BZ#1302802)
Security Fix(es):
* A flaw was found in the way firewalld allowed certain firewall configurations to be modified by unauthenticated users. Any locally logged in user could use this flaw to tamper or change firewall settings. (CVE-2016-5410)
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security issue bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux firewall firewalld

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5410 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/7.3_Release_Notes/index.html

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: firewalld-0.4.3.2-8.el7.src.rpm
noarch: firewall-config-0.4.3.2-8.el7.noarch.rpm firewalld-0.4.3.2-8.el7.noarch.rpm firewalld-filesystem-0.4.3.2-8.el7.noarch.rpm python-firewall-0.4.3.2-8.el7.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7):
noarch: firewall-applet-0.4.3.2-8.el7.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7):
Source: firewalld-0.4.3.2-8.el7.src.rpm
noarch: firewalld-0.4.3.2-8.el7.noarch.rpm firewalld-filesystem-0.4.3.2-8.el7.noarch.rpm python-firewall-0.4.3.2-8.el7.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7):
noarch: firewall-applet-0.4.3.2-8.el7.noarch.rpm firewall-config-0.4.3.2-8.el7.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: firewalld-0.4.3.2-8.el7.src.rpm
noarch: firewall-config-0.4.3.2-8.el7.noarch.rpm firewalld-0.4.3.2-8.el7.noarch.rpm firewalld-filesystem-0.4.3.2-8.el7.noarch.rpm python-firewall-0.4.3.2-8.el7.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7):
noarch: firewall-applet-0.4.3.2-8.el7.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7):
Source: firewalld-0.4.3.2-8.el7.src.rpm
noarch: firewall-config-0.4.3.2-8.el7.noarch.rpm firewalld-0.4.3.2-8.el7.noarch.rpm firewalld-filesystem-0.4.3.2-8.el7.noarch.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2016:2597-02
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:2597.html
Issue date: 2016-11-03

Topic

An update for firewalld is now available for Red Hat 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 moderate security issue bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux firewall firewalld

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

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

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

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - noarch

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - noarch

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) - noarch

Bugs Fixed

1066037 - firewall-config should allow unspecifying zone binding for interface

1136801 - a rule added into IN__allow chain with 'permanent direct' interface doesn't exist after reload

1147500 - RFE: add command to firewall-cmd showing details of a service

1147951 - firewall-cmd should support a default logging option.

1219717 - Add radius TCP to policy.

1220196 - Firewalld missing policies for imap and smtps

1220467 - Option '--quiet' is needed in firewall-offline-cmd command line.

1237242 - Error: RT_TO_PERM_FAILED: zone 'dmz' : ZONE_CONFLICT when doing --runtime-to-permanent

1273296 - [ALL_LANG][firewalld] Translation incomplete

1273888 - Firewalld DefaultZone change breaking on --reload

1281416 - Headless firewall-config over ssh. firewall-config missing dependencies

1285769 - Fails to start without ip6t_rpfilter module

1292926 - firewalld --new-service & malformed xml ??

1296573 - xsd specification nor service daemon checks whether tags are specified more than once if they must not

1301573 - firewalld reporting errors in logs for failed iptables commands

1302802 - Rebase to the new upstream and new release

1303026 - firewalld - mistake in renders ports remain closed, silently.

1305434 - Firewalld hangs with a NIS configuration

1313023 - command "systemctl reload firewalld" stops firewalld

1313845 - Backport After=dbus.service

1325335 - [RFE] allow negation of icmp-blocks zone configuration field

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