RHSA-2025:13269 - Security Advisory

Topic

A new release is now available for Red Hat Satellite 6.17 for RHEL 9.

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

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):

• puppetserver: REXML ReDoS vulnerability (CVE-2024-49761)
• puppet-agent: REXML ReDoS vulnerability (CVE-2024-49761)

Users of Red Hat Satellite are advised to upgrade to these updated
packages, which fix these bugs.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

For detailed instructions how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_satellite/6.17/html/updating_red_hat_satellite/index

Affected Products

• Red Hat Satellite 6.17 x86_64
• Red Hat Satellite Capsule 6.17 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 9 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2322153 - CVE-2024-49761 rexml: REXML ReDoS vulnerability
• SAT-35573 - Satellite 6.17 upgrade fails with ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint "index_katello_installed_packages_on_nvrea"
• SAT-35575 - Unable to find images in Azure image galleries
• SAT-35576 - pulpcore core_progressreport table gets out of sync with core_task table with no easy/recommended way to clean it up
• SAT-35577 - FIPS compliant Satellite 6.15 using chacha20-poly1305@opnessh.com cipher during image provisioning
• SAT-35579 - VMware compute profile - uninitialized constant Fog::Vsphere::Compute::ResourcePool
• SAT-35580 - hammer command with csv option generates few fields in json format
• SAT-35581 - ERROR: nextval: reached maximum value of sequence "katello_erratum_packages_id_seq" during concurrent repository sync plan executions
• SAT-35582 - Cloudinit default generates invalid yaml output when realm feature is in use
• SAT-35583 - Incremental CCV updates all CV versions
• SAT-35584 - Select one errata in the host collection and click on 'Install Selected via remote execution ? customize first' install all available errata for the host collection
• SAT-35586 - The "Leapp preupgrade report" tab on job invocations UI page disappears
• SAT-35587 - Error when trying to set any subscription attributes for virt-who-* hosts.
• SAT-35718 - rh_cloud uses http proxy with iop-advisor-engine
• SAT-36341 - Post 6.17 upgrade satellite is affected with high CPU usage and Actions::Katello::Applicability::Hosts::BulkGenerate tasks getting stuck
• SAT-36426 - foreman-rake rh_cloud:hybridcloud_register task is broken

CVEs

• CVE-2024-49761

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_satellite/6.17/html/updating_red_hat_satellite/index