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RedHat: RHSA-2022-2008-01 Moderate: Cockpit Security Update

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Calendar Grey May 10, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Cautionary alert issued for cockpit in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 to mitigate security risks. Update can be retrieved immediately.
An update for cockpit is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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

Cockpit enables users to administer GNU/Linux servers using a web browser. It offers network configuration, log inspection, diagnostic reports, SELinux troubleshooting, interactive command-line sessions, and more.
The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: cockpit (264.1). (BZ#1984902, BZ#1992620, BZ#2004041, BZ#2008208)
Security Fix(es):
* cockpit: authenticates with revoked certificates (CVE-2021-3698)
* cockpit: pages vulnerable to clickjacking (CVE-2021-3660)
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:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux moderate severity web administration cockpit

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3660 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3698 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.6_release_notes/

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8):
Source: cockpit-264.1-1.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: cockpit-264.1-1.el8.aarch64.rpm cockpit-bridge-264.1-1.el8.aarch64.rpm cockpit-debuginfo-264.1-1.el8.aarch64.rpm cockpit-debugsource-264.1-1.el8.aarch64.rpm cockpit-ws-264.1-1.el8.aarch64.rpm
noarch: cockpit-doc-264.1-1.el8.noarch.rpm cockpit-system-264.1-1.el8.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: cockpit-264.1-1.el8.ppc64le.rpm cockpit-bridge-264.1-1.el8.ppc64le.rpm cockpit-debuginfo-264.1-1.el8.ppc64le.rpm cockpit-debugsource-264.1-1.el8.ppc64le.rpm cockpit-ws-264.1-1.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: cockpit-264.1-1.el8.s390x.rpm cockpit-bridge-264.1-1.el8.s390x.rpm cockpit-debuginfo-264.1-1.el8.s390x.rpm cockpit-debugsource-264.1-1.el8.s390x.rpm cockpit-ws-264.1-1.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64: cockpit-264.1-1.el8.x86_64.rpm cockpit-bridge-264.1-1.el8.x86_64.rpm cockpit-debuginfo-264.1-1.el8.x86_64.rpm cockpit-debugsource-264.1-1.el8.x86_64.rpm cockpit-ws-264.1-1.el8.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/


Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:2008-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:2008
Issue date: 2022-05-10

Topic

An update for cockpit is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.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 security issue bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux moderate severity web administration cockpit

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1792270 - [RFE] Display "User Services" tab in Services panel

1980688 - CVE-2021-3660 cockpit: pages vulnerable to clickjacking

1992149 - CVE-2021-3698 cockpit: authenticates with revoked certificates

2004041 - kdump configuration wizard must ask for path for NFS

2008208 - TestServices.testLogs is failing on retries, breaks reverse dependencies gating tests

2016998 - [cockpit] RHEL 8.6 Tier 0 Localization

2018382 - [cockpit 8.5] [ja_JP] Few strings not localized on Overview page

2018384 - [cockpit 8.5] [ja_JP, zh_CN] Few strings not localized on Networking Page

2018417 - [cockpit 8.5] [zh_CN] Few strings not localized on Diagnostic Reports Page

2029982 - Cockpit 251 Administrative Access MFA Prompt Window Broken

2056386 - Failed to configure IPv4 and IPv6 types in Bond: NM always rolls back to previous checkpoint

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