RHSA-2019:1661 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for spacewalk-backend is now available for Red Hat Satellite 5.8.

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

Spacewalk is an Open Source systems management solution that provides system provisioning, configuration and patching capabilities.

Security Fix(es):

• spacewalk: Insecure computation of authentication signatures during user authentication (CVE-2019-10136)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in 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

For this update to take effect, Red Hat Satellite must be restarted ("/usr/sbin/rhn-satellite restart").

Affected Products

• Red Hat Satellite 5.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Satellite 5.8 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 1708696 - CVE-2019-10136 spacewalk: Insecure computation of authentication signatures during user authentication

CVEs

• CVE-2019-10136

References

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