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Red Hat Satellite 6.9 RHSA-2021-1313-01 Moderate: System Management Issues

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Calendar Grey April 21, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat Satellite 6.9 has been issued a notable security enhancement update that addresses various vulnerabilities, aiming to improve overall system administration.
An update is now available for Red Hat Satellite 6.9 for RHEL 7

Solution

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

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

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

Summary

Red Hat Satellite is a systems management tool for Linux-based infrastructure. It allows for provisioning, remote management, and monitoring of multiple Linux deployments with a single centralized tool.
Security Fix(es):
* foreman: Managing repositories with their id via hammer does not respect the role filters (CVE-2017-2662) * python-psutil: Double free because of refcount mishandling (CVE-2019-18874) * candlepin: netty: compression/decompression codecs don't enforce limits on buffer allocation sizes (CVE-2020-11612) * foreman: world-readable OMAPI secret through the ISC DHCP server (CVE-2020-14335) * candlepin: resteasy-client: potential sensitive information leakage in JAX-RS RESTEasy Client's WebApplicationException handling (CVE-2020-25633) * python-django: potential SQL injection via "tolerance" parameter in GIS functions and aggregates on Oracle (CVE-2020-9402)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
* Usability enhancements to Red Hat's Simple Content Access mode and Satellite
* Usability improvements to enabling Remote Execution on your hosts.
* Notifications in the UI to warn users when subscriptions are expiring.
* Usability enhancements to enable Insights integration with Satellite.
* Performance improvements to various aspects of the user interface and API.
* Added support for OpenID Connect for authentication.
* Usability improvements to the Satellite Installer.
* Updated Ruby web server to the modern Puma application server which replaces Passenger.
The items above are not a complete list of changes. This update also fixes several bugs and adds various enhancements. Documentation for these changes is available from the Release Notes document linked to in the References section.

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-2662 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-18874 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-9402 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-11612 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-14335 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-25633 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Satellite Capsule 6.9:
Source: ansible-collection-redhat-satellite-2.0.1-1.el7sat.src.rpm ansible-runner-1.4.6-1.el7ar.src.rpm ansiblerole-foreman_scap_client-0.1.0-1.el7sat.src.rpm ansiblerole-insights-client-1.7.1-1.el7sat.src.rpm ansiblerole-satellite-receptor-installer-0.6.13-1.el7sat.src.rpm createrepo_c-0.17.1-1.el7pc.src.rpm foreman-2.3.1.20-1.el7sat.src.rpm foreman-bootloaders-redhat-202005201200-1.el7sat.src.rpm foreman-discovery-image-3.7.4-2.el7sat.src.rpm foreman-discovery-image-service-1.0.0-4.el7sat.src.rpm foreman-installer-2.3.1.10-1.el7sat.src.rpm foreman-proxy-2.3.1-1.el7sat.src.rpm foreman-selinux-2.3.1-1.el7sat.src.rpm future-0.16.0-11.el7sat.src.rpm gofer-2.12.5-7.el7sat.src.rpm hfsplus-tools-332.14-12.el7.src.rpm katello-3.18.1-3.el7sat.src.rpm katello-certs-tools-2.7.3-1.el7sat.src.rpm katello-client-bootstrap-1.7.5-1.el7sat.src.rpm katello-selinux-3.5.1-1.el7sat.src.rpm kobo-0.5.1-1.el7sat.src.rpm libmodulemd-1.7.0-1.pulp.el7sat.src.rpm libsolv-0.7.12-2.el7pc.src.rpm libwebsockets-2.4.2-2.el7.src.rpm livecd-tools-20.4-1.6.el7sat.src.rpm mod_xsendfile-0.12-11.el7sat.src.rpm ostree-2017.1-2.atomic.el7.src.rpm pulp-2.21.5-2.el7sat.src.rpm pulp-docker-3.2.9-1.el7sat.src.rpm pulp-katello-1.0.3-1.el7sat.src.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:1313-01
Product: Red Hat Satellite 6
Issue date: 2021-04-21

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat Satellite 6.9 for RHEL 7.

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Satellite 6.9 - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Satellite Capsule 6.9 - noarch, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1434106 - CVE-2017-2662 foreman: Managing repositories with their id via hammer does not respect the role filters1439842 - Content View version delete fails with error "PLP0000: Pulp exception occurred: PulpExecutionException"

1459807 - Apply Errata to a Content Host via incremental C.V. has to wait till Capsule sync of the C.V. finishes

1470083 - Discovery settings 'Hostname_facts' should not be allowed to set empty

1526564 - [RFE] [sat-e-492] [SAT-506] allow adding arch and releasever to custom repos

1531536 - when I delete hosts where remote job was running, that finished remote job will start showing >100% result

1627812 - [RFE] There should be an API for getting the Satellite version and release

1654576 - "--order" and "--by" options of "hammer task list" doesn't work as expected.

1659506 - 'katello-certs-check' should display a warning messages if server.crt contains CN=shortname

1662478 - "openstack" in location/organization name is expanded into "RHEL OpenStack Platform"

1667647 - getting host details takes several times more for non-admin user

1677180 - [RFE] Provide the ability to use su as the effective method with password

1686641 - Unable to import job templates that have been exported from Satellite.

1686691 - [RFE] HTTP Proxy should provide "http_proxy" and "https_proxy" two options, not only "http_proxy" as default.

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