RHEL 6 : satellite and spacewalk (RHSA-2017:2645)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 103045

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for satellite / spacewalk.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2017:2645 advisory.

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

Red Hat Satellite is a system management tool for Linux-based infrastructures. It allows for provisioning, monitoring, and the remote management of multiple Linux deployments with a single, centralized tool.

Security Fix(es):

* A cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw was found in how an organization name is displayed in Satellite 5. A user able to change an organization's name could exploit this flaw to perform XSS attacks against other Satellite users. (CVE-2017-7538)

This issue was discovered by Ales Dujicek (Red Hat).

Bug Fix(es):

* Prior to this update, transferring content between Satellites using Inter-Satellite Synchronization or channel-dumps failed to transfer the product-name related to channels. This interfered with the process of moving a server between EUS channels. The 'satellite-export' tool now correctly provides associated product-names, fixing this behavior. (BZ#1446271)

* Prior to this update, the API call 'schedule.failSystemAction()' allowed overwriting a system's event history. This is undesirable from an auditing standpoint. The API now no longer allows affecting completed or failed events. (BZ#1455887)

* Prior to this update, organization administrators who were not allowed to change their organization's attributes could do so by modifying form elements. The associated form controller no longer allows this behavior. (BZ#1458722)

* Prior to this update, the 'download' tool's retry limit would be incorrect if there were more available mirrors than its retry count. It could also produce a harmless but unhelpful traceback in some situations.
Both of these behaviors have been fixed. (BZ#1458765)

* Prior to this update, it was possible for parallel registrations using reactivation keys, that were creating snapshot entries, to occasionally deadlock. Both the reactivation-key registration and snapshot- creation paths have been updated to prevent these deadlocks. (BZ#1458880)

* Prior to this update, if there was some problem with a single erratum in a given repository, the 'reposync' command would complain and exit. The tool now logs such errors but continues to synchronize any remaining errata. (BZ#1466229)

* The Satellite 5.8 release failed to include an update to a registration-failure error message that had been released for Satellite 5.7. This restores the missing update. (BZ#1467632)

* Prior to this update, the list of systems in the System Set Manager failed to display the correct icons for a system's update status. This has been corrected. (BZ#1475067)

* Prior to this update, a timing window in the 'cdn-sync' command, when synchronizing multiple channels at once, could cause some of the synchronization attempts to be refused with a 403 error. This update fixes the timing window so that multiple syncs should now work reliably. (BZ#1476924)

* Prior to this update, attempting to view the systems in the System Set Manager that are affected by a given erratum would result in an internal server error. This has been fixed. (BZ#1477508)

* Prior to this update, using 'cdn-sync --no-packages' on a specific channel would disassociate all packages from that channel. This behavior has been fixed, so that '--no-packages' now just skips that step as intended. (BZ#1477667)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL satellite / spacewalk packages based on the guidance in RHSA-2017:2645.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 103045

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2017-2645.nasl

Version: 3.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 9/8/2017

Updated: 11/5/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.5

Temporal Score: 2.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-7538

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-backend-package-push-server, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-java-lib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-backend-sql-postgresql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-backend-app, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-backend-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-backend-xmlrpc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-schema, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-backend-config-files, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-backend-config-files-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-backend, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-java-postgresql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-backend-sql-oracle, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-backend-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-backend-iss-export, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-backend-cdn, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:satellite-schema, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-backend-xml-export-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-backend-iss, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-backend-sql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-java-oracle, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-taskomatic, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-java, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-backend-applet, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-java-config, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-backend-config-files-tool, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-backend-tools

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/6/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/26/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-7538

CWE: 79

RHSA: 2017:2645

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