RHSA-2017:0698 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for subscription-manager, subscription-manager-migration-data, and python-rhsm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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

The subscription-manager packages provide programs and libraries to allow users to manage subscriptions and yum repositories from the Red Hat entitlement platform.

The subscription-manager-migration-data package provides certificates for migrating a system from the legacy Red Hat Network Classic (RHN) to Red Hat Subscription Management (RHSM).

The python-rhsm packages provide a library for communicating with the representational state transfer (REST) interface of a Red Hat Unified Entitlement Platform. The Subscription Management tools use this interface to manage system entitlements, certificates, and access to content.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: subscription-manager (1.18.10), python-rhsm (1.18.6), subscription-manager-migration-data (2.0.34). (BZ#1383475, BZ#1385446, BZ#1385382)

Security Fix(es):

• It was found that subscription-manager set weak permissions on files in /var/lib/rhsm/, causing an information disclosure. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to access sensitive data that could potentially be used in a social engineering attack. (CVE-2016-4455)

Red Hat would like to thank Robert Scheck for reporting this issue.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 Release Notes and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 Technical Notes linked from the References section.

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

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 - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 1176219 - subscription-manager repos --list with bad proxy options is silently using cache
• BZ - 1185914 - [RFE] rhn-migrate-classic-to-rhsm should give the option to remove RHN Classic related packages / daemons
• BZ - 1232472 - rhel-x86_64-server-sap-hana-6 channel maps are missing from channel-cert-mapping.txt
• BZ - 1283749 - Some GUI dialogs which should be error dialogs are information dialogs, breaking automated testing
• BZ - 1286842 - 'rhel-x86_64-server-6-rh-gluster-3-samba-debuginfo' channel map is missing from channel-cert-mapping.txt
• BZ - 1287925 - /bin/sh /etc/cron.daily/rhsmd does not stop.
• BZ - 1298140 - There is no proper icon in license window nor in date selection window for subscription-manager-gui
• BZ - 1301215 - The cmd "repos --list --proxy" with a fake proxy server url will not stop running.
• BZ - 1315591 - GUI : No network is thrown when you try to remove a subscription on the system with no network
• BZ - 1317613 - typo in src/subscription_manager/gui/data/ui/selectsla.ui
• BZ - 1320507 - Wrong prefix prompts when register using serverurl without prefix
• BZ - 1320597 - rhel-x86_64-server-hpn-fastrack-6 channel maps are absent from channel-cert-mapping.txt
• BZ - 1320607 - rhel-x86_64-server-hpn-6 channel maps are absent from channel-cert-mapping.txt
• BZ - 1320647 - rhn channels 'rhel-ARCH-workstation-6-thirdparty-oracle-java-beta' should maps to the Beta product cert, not the GA cert.
• BZ - 1321831 - When consumer ID has been deleted, the Back button and Next button should be disabled in Attaching window.
• BZ - 1323276 - Proxy dialog displays None:{None,3128} in field "Proxy Location" in some cases
• BZ - 1327179 - Subscription Manager cannot start when entitlement server is unreachable in case a proxy connection is used
• BZ - 1337817 - The 'Start-End Date' of expired subscription is not in red status when the subscription expired.
• BZ - 1340525 - CVE-2016-4455 subscription-manager: sensitive world readable files in /var/lib/rhsm/
• BZ - 1351009 - Error when disable all repos by 'subscription-manager repos --disable=*'
• BZ - 1367128 - [RFE] upload FQDN with facts
• BZ - 1382355 - CLI Does Not Display Error Message When Auto-Attach has Failure
• BZ - 1383475 - Rebase subscription-manager component to the latest upstream branch for RHEL 6.9
• BZ - 1385382 - Rebase python-rhsm component to the latest upstream branch for RHEL 6.9
• BZ - 1385446 - Rebase subscription-manager-migration-data component to the latest upstream branch for RHEL 6.9
• BZ - 1389559 - logging to /var/log/rhsm/rhsm.log ceases after upgrade from rhel6.8 to rhel6.9
• BZ - 1390258 - rhn-migrate-classic-to-rhsm --keep --remove-rhn-packages should error out due to conflicting options
• BZ - 1390341 - rhn-migrate-classic-to-rhsm is failing to stop and disable services
• BZ - 1390688 - global name 'socket' is not defined
• BZ - 1390712 - man page for rhn-migrate-classic-to-rhsm needs a description for new option --remove-rhn-packages
• BZ - 1391681 - Zanata translations for subscription-manager 1.18 are not 100%
• BZ - 1393573 - subscription-manager-migration-data for RHEL6.9 needs RHEL6.9 product certs
• BZ - 1394351 - 'module' object has no attribute 'PROXY_AUTHENTICATION_REQUIRED'
• BZ - 1394776 - Registration fails with RemoteServerException: Server error attempting a GET to /subscription/users/stage_test_rhel69/owners returned status 404
• BZ - 1395659 - Firstboot : Exception occurs while trying to register via auth proxy with invalid credentials
• BZ - 1395662 - Firstboot: Exception occured while trying to register the system using activation-key with org and activation-key field empty
• BZ - 1395684 - GUI: No error dialogue when you try to register via auth proxy without selecting "Use Authentication with http proxy" option
• BZ - 1395794 - /usr/libexec/rhsmd is failing with ImportError: No module named decorator
• BZ - 1396405 - Message "an integer is required" is displayed when tired to list release versions against stage server
• BZ - 1397201 - AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'BadStatusLine'
• BZ - 1400719 - AttributeError: 'ContentConnection' object has no attribute 'proxy_host'
• BZ - 1401078 - unrepeatable "BadStatusLine" tracebacks are silently encountered when stage testing
• BZ - 1402009 - subscription-manager stdout contains ESC[?1034h
• BZ - 1403387 - there is an error in processing the specified proxy arguments versus proxy configurations
• BZ - 1404930 - Unable to launch subscription-manager gui when configure invalid proxy in proxy url
• BZ - 1417731 - [ko][pt_BR] pofilter endwhitespace test fails for subscription-manager 1.18.X
• BZ - 1417736 - [pt_BR][fr][ja] pofilter accelerators test fails for subscription-manager 1.18.X
• BZ - 1417740 - [ko] pofilter startwhitespace test fails for subscription-manager 1.18.X
• BZ - 1417746 - [it][fr][es_ES][pt_BR] pofilter unchanged test fails for subscription-manager 1.18.X

CVEs

• CVE-2016-4455

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.9_Release_Notes/index.html
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.9_Technical_Notes/index.html