Synopsis

Important: ruby193-rubygem-katello security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update for ruby193-rubygem-katello is now available for Red Hat Satellite 6.1.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Red Hat Satellite is a system management solution that allows
organizations to configure and maintain their systems without the
necessity to provide public Internet access to their servers or
other client systems. It performs provisioning and configuration
management of predefined standard operating environments.

Security Fix(es):

• An input sanitization flaw was found in the scoped search parameters sort_by and sort_order in the REST API. An authenticated user could use this flaw to perform an SQL injection attack on the Katello back end database. (CVE-2016-3072)

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

All running applications using the ruby193 collection must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Affected Products

• Red Hat Satellite 6.1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Satellite 6.1 for RHEL 6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1322050 - CVE-2016-3072 Katello: Authenticated sql injection via sort_by and sort_order request parameter

CVEs

• CVE-2016-3072

References