Scientific Linux: 2008-4313 Critical Tog-Pegasus Access Control Issue

Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:41:49 -0600
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA for tog-pegasus on SL5.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Important: tog-pegasus security update
Issue date:	2008-11-25
CVE Names:	CVE-2008-4313 CVE-2008-4315

Scientific Linux defines additional security enhancements for OpenGroup Pegasus
WBEM services in addition to those defined by the upstream OpenGroup Pegasus
release.

After re-basing to version 2.7.0 of the OpenGroup Pegasus code, these
additional security enhancements were no longer being applied. As a
consequence, access to OpenPegasus WBEM services was not restricted to the
dedicated users. An attacker able to authenticate using a valid user account
could use this flaw to send requests to WBEM services. (CVE-2008-4313)

Note: default SELinux policy prevents tog-pegasus from modifying system
files. This flaw's impact depends on whether or not tog-pegasus is confined
by SELinux, and on any additional CMPI providers installed and enabled on a
particular system.

Failed authentication attempts against the OpenPegasus CIM server were not
logged to the system log. An attacker could use this flaw to perform password
guessing attacks against a user account without leaving traces in the system
log. (CVE-2008-4315)

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
tog-pegasus-2.7.0-2.el5_2.1.src.rpm
 i386:
tog-pegasus-2.7.0-2.el5_2.1.i386.rpm
tog-pegasus-devel-2.7.0-2.el5_2.1.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
tog-pegasus-2.7.0-2.el5_2.1.i386.rpm
tog-pegasus-2.7.0-2.el5_2.1.x86_64.rpm
tog-pegasus-devel-2.7.0-2.el5_2.1.i386.rpm
tog-pegasus-devel-2.7.0-2.el5_2.1.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson
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