Synopsis

Low: rgmanager security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Low

Topic

An updated rgmanager package that fixes one security issue, several bugs,
and adds multiple enhancements is now available for Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 5.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having low
security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,
which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in
the References section.

Description

The rgmanager package contains the Red Hat Resource Group Manager, which
provides the ability to create and manage high-availability server
applications in the event of system downtime.

It was discovered that certain resource agent scripts set the
LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to an insecure value containing empty
path elements. A local user able to trick a user running those scripts to
run them while working from an attacker-writable directory could use this
flaw to escalate their privileges via a specially-crafted dynamic library.
(CVE-2010-3389)

Red Hat would like to thank Raphael Geissert for reporting this issue.

This update also fixes the following bugs:

• The failover domain "nofailback" option was not honored if a service was
  in the "starting" state. This bug has been fixed. (BZ#669440)
  
• PID files with white spaces in the file name are now handled correctly.
  (BZ#632704)
  
• The /usr/sbin/rhev-check.sh script can now be used from within Cron.
  (BZ#634225)
  
• The clustat utility now reports the correct version. (BZ#654160)
  
• The oracledb.sh agent now attempts to try the "shutdown immediate"
  command instead of using the "shutdown abort" command. (BZ#633992)
  
• The SAPInstance and SAPDatabase scripts now use proper directory name
  quoting so they no longer collide with directory names like "/u".
  (BZ#637154)
  
• The clufindhostname utility now returns the correct value in all cases.
  (BZ#592613)
  
• The nfsclient resource agent now handles paths with trailing slashes
  correctly. (BZ#592624)
  
• The last owner of a service is now reported correctly after a failover.
  (BZ#610483)
  
• The /usr/share/cluster/fs.sh script no longer runs the "quotaoff" command
  if quotas were not configured. (BZ#637678)
  
• The "listen" line in the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file generated by the
  Apache resource agent is now correct. (BZ#675739)
  
• The tomcat-5 resource agent no longer generates incorrect configurations.
  (BZ#637802)
  
• The time required to stop an NFS resource when the server is unavailable
  has been reduced. (BZ#678494)
  
• When using exclusive prioritization, a higher priority service now
  preempts a lower priority service after status check failures. (BZ#680256)
  
• The postgres-8 resource agent now correctly detects failed start
  operations. (BZ#663827)
  
• The handling of reference counts passed by rgmanager to resource agents
  now works properly, as expected. (BZ#692771)
  

As well, this update adds the following enhancements:

• It is now possible to disable updates to static routes by the IP resource
  agent. (BZ#620700)
  
• It is now possible to use XFS as a file system within a cluster service.
  (BZ#661893)
  
• It is now possible to use the "clustat" command as a non-root user, so
  long as that user is in the "root" group. (BZ#510300)
  
• It is now possible to migrate virtual machines when central processing is
  enabled. (BZ#525271)
  
• The rgmanager init script will now delay after stopping services in order
  to allow time for other nodes to restart them. (BZ#619468)
  
• The handling of failed independent subtrees has been corrected.
  (BZ#711521)
  

All users of Red Hat Resource Group Manager are advised to upgrade to this
updated package, which contains backported patches to correct these issues
and add these enhancements.

Solution

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

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to
use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability (for RHEL Server) 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability (for RHEL Server) 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability (for RHEL Server) 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability (for RHEL Server) 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability (for RHEL Server) from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability (for RHEL Server) from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 592613 - clufindhostname -i returns random value
• BZ - 592624 - nfsclient exports doens't work.
• BZ - 610483 - last_owner is not correctly updated on service reallocarion on failover
• BZ - 632704 - If whitespace in mysql resource name then pid file is not found
• BZ - 634225 - rhev-check.sh needs /usr/sbin in path
• BZ - 637154 - SAPInstance and SAPDatabase fail to start/stop/status if /u exists
• BZ - 637678 - service failover hangs at quotaoff in /usr/share/cluster/fs.sh
• BZ - 637802 - Fix problems in generated config file for tomcat-5
• BZ - 639044 - CVE-2010-3389 rgmanager: insecure library loading vulnerability
• BZ - 654160 - clustat -v reports "clustat version DEVEL" on release package
• BZ - 661893 - Support/testing of XFS filesystem as part of RHEL Cluster
• BZ - 663827 - postgres-8 resource agent does not detect a failed start of postgres server
• BZ - 669440 - Service will failback on "nofailback" failover domain if service is in "starting" state
• BZ - 675739 - Listen line in generated httpd.conf incorrect
• BZ - 678494 - netfs.sh patch, when network is lost it takes too long to unmount the NFS filesystems
• BZ - 680256 - Service with highest exclusive prio should be relocated to another node with lower exclusive prio
• BZ - 711521 - Dependencies in independent_tree resources does not work as expected

CVEs

• CVE-2010-3389

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low

Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability (for RHEL Server) 5

SRPM
rgmanager-2.0.52-21.el5.src.rpm	SHA-256: 601694a9eb82ce246447ac513fbb80daae5ea31cfeb47ddaec84d5afb8867498
x86_64
rgmanager-2.0.52-21.el5.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 47107019c4274c58032e63b241a274c27e9ed3823aaa99fddcb97de5f589507d
ppc
rgmanager-2.0.52-21.el5.ppc.rpm	SHA-256: 3fb66b7f9bb4e05be3f33b68cb4ddbeba26635dee2b9849e5a89beba7482092c
ia64
rgmanager-2.0.52-21.el5.ia64.rpm	SHA-256: 152be752707fc5b2851c3ba4acea368c9619132c7deb94cf93aa4d0d1ade97a1
i386
rgmanager-2.0.52-21.el5.i386.rpm	SHA-256: 0aa3548f765769ca6315919ad7206788d47f1e746fbd989c8bdf49e3d8d16d6b

Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability (for RHEL Server) from RHUI 5

SRPM
rgmanager-2.0.52-21.el5.src.rpm	SHA-256: 601694a9eb82ce246447ac513fbb80daae5ea31cfeb47ddaec84d5afb8867498
x86_64
rgmanager-2.0.52-21.el5.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 47107019c4274c58032e63b241a274c27e9ed3823aaa99fddcb97de5f589507d
i386
rgmanager-2.0.52-21.el5.i386.rpm	SHA-256: 0aa3548f765769ca6315919ad7206788d47f1e746fbd989c8bdf49e3d8d16d6b