RHSA-2015:1083 - Security Advisory

Topic

Updated abrt packages that fix multiple security issues are now available
for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important 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

ABRT (Automatic Bug Reporting Tool) is a tool to help users to detect
defects in applications and to create a bug report with all the information
needed by a maintainer to fix it. It uses a plug-in system to extend its
functionality.

It was found that ABRT was vulnerable to multiple race condition and
symbolic link flaws. A local attacker could use these flaws to potentially
escalate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2015-3315)

It was discovered that the kernel-invoked coredump processor provided by
ABRT wrote core dumps to files owned by other system users. This could
result in information disclosure if an application crashed while its
current directory was a directory writable to by other users (such as
/tmp). (CVE-2015-3142)

It was discovered that the default event handling scripts installed by ABRT
did not handle symbolic links correctly. A local attacker with write access
to an ABRT problem directory could use this flaw to escalate their
privileges. (CVE-2015-1869)

It was found that the ABRT event scripts created a user-readable copy of an
sosreport file in ABRT problem directories, and included excerpts of
/var/log/messages selected by the user-controlled process name, leading to
an information disclosure. (CVE-2015-1870)

It was discovered that, when moving problem reports between certain
directories, abrt-handle-upload did not verify that the new problem
directory had appropriate permissions and did not contain symbolic links.
An attacker able to create a crafted problem report could use this flaw to
expose other parts of ABRT to attack, or to overwrite arbitrary files on
the system. (CVE-2015-3147)

Multiple directory traversal flaws were found in the abrt-dbus D-Bus
service. A local attacker could use these flaws to read and write arbitrary
files as the root user. (CVE-2015-3151)

It was discovered that the abrt-dbus D-Bus service did not properly check
the validity of the problem directory argument in the ChownProblemDir,
DeleteElement, and DeleteProblem methods. A local attacker could use this
flaw to take ownership of arbitrary files and directories, or to delete
files and directories as the root user. (CVE-2015-3150)

It was discovered that the abrt-action-install-debuginfo-to-abrt-cache
helper program did not properly filter the process environment before
invoking abrt-action-install-debuginfo. A local attacker could use this
flaw to escalate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2015-3159)

All users of abrt are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
correct these issues.

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/knowledge/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.1 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.4 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.3 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.2 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.1 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.5 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.4 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.3 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.2 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.1 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.5 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.3 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.1 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.1 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.3 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1211835 - CVE-2015-3315 abrt: Various race-conditions and symlink issues found in abrt
• BZ - 1212818 - CVE-2015-3142 abrt: abrt-hook-ccpp writes core dumps to existing files owned by others
• BZ - 1212861 - CVE-2015-1869 abrt: default event scripts follow symbolic links
• BZ - 1212868 - CVE-2015-1870 abrt: default abrt event scripts lead to information disclosure
• BZ - 1212953 - CVE-2015-3147 abrt: does not validate contents of uploaded problem reports
• BZ - 1214451 - CVE-2015-3151 abrt: directory traversals in several D-Bus methods implemented by abrt-dbus
• BZ - 1214457 - CVE-2015-3150 abrt: abrt-dbus does not guard against crafted problem directory path arguments
• BZ - 1216962 - CVE-2015-3159 abrt: missing process environment sanitizaton in abrt-action-install-debuginfo-to-abrt-cache
• BZ - 1218610 - libreport: races in dump directory handling code [rhel-7.1.z]

CVEs

• CVE-2015-3315
• CVE-2015-1870
• CVE-2015-3150
• CVE-2015-3151
• CVE-2015-3142
• CVE-2015-1869
• CVE-2015-3147
• CVE-2015-3159

References

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