RHSA-2011:1536 - Security Advisory

Topic

An updated sos package that fixes one security issue, several bugs, and
adds various enhancements is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

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

Sos is a set of tools that gather information about system hardware and
configuration.

The sosreport utility incorrectly included Certificate-based Red Hat
Network private entitlement keys in the resulting archive of debugging
information. An attacker able to access the archive could use the keys to
access Red Hat Network content available to the host. This issue did not
affect users of Red Hat Network Classic. (CVE-2011-4083)

This updated sos package also includes numerous bug fixes and enhancements.
Space precludes documenting all of these changes in this advisory.
Documentation for these bug fixes and enhancements will be available
shortly from the Technical Notes document, linked to in the References
section.

All users of sos 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 Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 600813 - [RFE] capture complete list of yum repositories in sosreport
• BZ - 673244 - [RFE] include output of ibv_devinfo command (libibverbs-utils package) in sosreport
• BZ - 677124 - RFE: iSCSI Target plugin for sosreport.
• BZ - 682124 - sosreport does not capture nslcd.conf file.
• BZ - 683404 - autofs plugin does not collect chkconfig autofs status as intended
• BZ - 691477 - sosreport does not include lsusb output
• BZ - 709491 - grab vmmemctl
• BZ - 713449 - sosreport truncates leading and trailing whitespace from command outputs
• BZ - 726360 - Extend qpidd plugin
• BZ - 726427 - [RFE] sosreport should collect the result of ethtool -g, ethtool -c, and ethtool -a by default
• BZ - 736718 - path is wrong for hardware.py plugin
• BZ - 749383 - CVE-2011-4083 sos: sosreport is gathering certificate-based RHN entitlement private keys

CVEs

• CVE-2011-4083

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low
• https://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.2_Technical_Notes/sos.html#RHSA-2011-1536