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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RHSA-2018-3158-01 Low SSSD Bug Fix

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Calendar Grey October 30, 2018
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat issues a patch for sssd responding to a minor security concern alongside fixes aimed at boosting performance.
An update for sssd 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

The System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) service provides a set of daemons to manage access to remote directories and authentication mechanisms. It also provides the Name Service Switch (NSS) and the Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) interfaces toward the system, and a pluggable back-end system to connect to multiple different account sources.
The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: sssd (1.16.2). (BZ#1558498)
Security Fix(es):
* sssd: information leak from the sssd-sudo responder (CVE-2018-10852)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
This issue was discovered by Jakub Hrozek (Red Hat).
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Release Notes linked from the References section.

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-10852 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.6_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: sssd-1.16.2-13.el7.src.rpm
noarch: python-sssdconfig-1.16.2-13.el7.noarch.rpm
x86_64: libipa_hbac-1.16.2-13.el7.i686.rpm libipa_hbac-1.16.2-13.el7.x86_64.rpm libsss_autofs-1.16.2-13.el7.x86_64.rpm libsss_certmap-1.16.2-13.el7.i686.rpm libsss_certmap-1.16.2-13.el7.x86_64.rpm libsss_idmap-1.16.2-13.el7.i686.rpm libsss_idmap-1.16.2-13.el7.x86_64.rpm libsss_nss_idmap-1.16.2-13.el7.i686.rpm libsss_nss_idmap-1.16.2-13.el7.x86_64.rpm libsss_simpleifp-1.16.2-13.el7.i686.rpm libsss_simpleifp-1.16.2-13.el7.x86_64.rpm libsss_sudo-1.16.2-13.el7.x86_64.rpm python-libipa_hbac-1.16.2-13.el7.x86_64.rpm python-sss-1.16.2-13.el7.x86_64.rpm python-sss-murmur-1.16.2-13.el7.x86_64.rpm sssd-1.16.2-13.el7.x86_64.rpm sssd-ad-1.16.2-13.el7.x86_64.rpm sssd-client-1.16.2-13.el7.i686.rpm sssd-client-1.16.2-13.el7.x86_64.rpm sssd-common-1.16.2-13.el7.x86_64.rpm sssd-common-pac-1.16.2-13.el7.x86_64.rpm sssd-dbus-1.16.2-13.el7.x86_64.rpm sssd-debuginfo-1.16.2-13.el7.i686.rpm sssd-debuginfo-1.16.2-13.el7.x86_64.rpm sssd-ipa-1.16.2-13.el7.x86_64.rpm sssd-kcm-1.16.2-13.el7.x86_64.rpm sssd-krb5-1.16.2-13.el7.x86_64.rpm sssd-krb5-common-1.16.2-13.el7.x86_64.rpm sssd-ldap-1.16.2-13.el7.x86_64.rpm sssd-libwbclient-1.16.2-13.el7.x86_64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:3158-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue date: 2018-10-30

Topic

An update for sssd is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Low. 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.

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM and IBM Power LE (POWER9) Server (v. 7) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM and IBM Power LE (POWER9) Server Optional (v. 7) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x

Bugs Fixed

1385665 - Incorrect error code returned from krb5_child (updated)

1416528 - sssd in cross realm trust configuration should be able to use AD KDCs from a client site defined in sssd.conf or a snippet

1459348 - extend sss-certmap man page regarding priority processing

1509691 - Document how to change the regular expression for SSSD so that group names with an @-sign can be parsed

1514061 - ID override GID from Default Trust View is not properly resolved in case domain resolution order is set

1516266 - Give a more detailed debug and system-log message if krb5_init_context() failed

1522928 - sssd doesn't allow user with expired password to login when PasswordgraceLimit set

1534749 - Requesting an AD user's private group and then the user itself returns an emty homedir

1537272 - SSH public key authentication keeps working after keys are removed from ID view

1537279 - Certificate is not removed from cache when it's removed from the override

1538555 - crash in nss_protocol_fill_netgrent. sssd_nss[19234]: segfault at 80 ip 000055612688c2a0 sp 00007ffddf9b9cd0 error 4 in sssd_nss[55612687e000+39000]

1546754 - The man page of sss_ssh_authorizedkeys can be enhanced to better explain how the keys are retrieved and how X.509 certificates can be used

1558498 - Rebase sssd to the latests upstream release of the 1.16 branch

1562025 - externalUser sudo attribute must be fully-qualified

1565774 - After updating to RHEL 7.5 failing to clear the sssd cache

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