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[RHSA-2008:0860-02] Important: ipa security update

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Red Hat Security Advisory

 

Synopsis: Important: ipa security update

Advisory ID: RHSA-2008:0860-02

Product: Red Hat Enterprise IPA

Advisory URL: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0860.html

Issue date: 2008-09-10

CVE Names: CVE-2008-3274

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1. Summary:

 

Updated ipa packages that fix a security flaw are now available for Red Hat

Enterprise IPA.

 

This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red

Hat Security Response Team.

 

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

 

Red Hat IPA 1 for RHEL 5 Server - i386, x86_64

 

3. Description:

 

Red Hat Enterprise IPA is an integrated solution to provide

centrally-managed Identity (machines, users, virtual machines, groups,

authentication credentials), Policy (configuration settings, access control

information) and Audit (events, logs, analysis) services.

 

A flaw was found in the Red Hat Enterprise IPA installation procedure. The

master Kerberos password was set up in the LDAP server in such a way that

it was possible to retrieve the password via an anonymous LDAP connection.

(CVE-2008-3274)

 

Note: the master Kerberos password is used to encrypt keys. This flaw does

not lead to individual keys being exposed.

 

Users of Red Hat IPA should upgrade to these updated packages and perform

the operations explained in the solution to resolve this issue.

 

4. Solution:

 

To fully resolve this problem, you need to manually perform the following

steps after installing the updated packages:

 

Disclaimer: The following procedure performs critical, low-level operations

on your IPA system, and it is imperative that you back up your system

before carrying out any of the following steps. A failure during this

procedure may compromise the readability of all or part of your Kerberos

keys.

 

1. Upgrade all of your servers (masters and replicas) and restart the

dirsrv service on all of them. No other daemon needs to be restarted at

this stage.

 

2. On one master server, run the following tool:

$ ipa-fix-2008-3274 --check

 

This should report that the system is vulnerable.

 

3. On the same master server, run the following tool:

$ ipa-fix-2008-3274 --fix

 

This should dump all Kerberos principals, reload them, and then return a

message stating that the operation completed successfully. If not, you

should contact Red Hat GSS for immediate assistance.

 

This step should also create a .gpg file symmetrically-encrypted with the

Directory Manager password. This file contains a backup of all Kerberos

key material and is written to /var/lib/ipa/.

 

Attention: DO NOT RUN THIS COMMAND ON ANY OTHER SERVER. See the next step.

 

4. On all other IPA servers, run the following tool:

$ ipa-fix-2008-3274 --fix-replica

 

This will report that the system is NOT vulnerable and will then download

the master key for the local KDC instance. This command will restart the

KDC service.

 

If the command reports a system as anything other than not vulnerable,

verify that replication between masters is working correctly. The procedure

will not successfully complete until replication failures are addressed.

 

 

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released

errata relevant to your system have been applied.

 

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use

the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at

http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188

 

5. Bugs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

 

457835 - CVE-2008-3274 IPA Kerberos master password disclosure

 

6. Package List:

 

Red Hat IPA 1 for RHEL 5 Server:

 

Source:

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Server/en/RHEIPA/SRPMS/ipa-1.0.0-23.el5ipa.src.rpm

 

i386:

ipa-admintools-1.0.0-23.el5ipa.i386.rpm

ipa-client-1.0.0-23.el5ipa.i386.rpm

ipa-debuginfo-1.0.0-23.el5ipa.i386.rpm

ipa-python-1.0.0-23.el5ipa.i386.rpm

ipa-server-1.0.0-23.el5ipa.i386.rpm

ipa-server-selinux-1.0.0-23.el5ipa.i386.rpm

 

x86_64:

ipa-admintools-1.0.0-23.el5ipa.x86_64.rpm

ipa-client-1.0.0-23.el5ipa.x86_64.rpm

ipa-debuginfo-1.0.0-23.el5ipa.x86_64.rpm

ipa-python-1.0.0-23.el5ipa.x86_64.rpm

ipa-server-1.0.0-23.el5ipa.x86_64.rpm

ipa-server-selinux-1.0.0-23.el5ipa.x86_64.rpm

 

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and

details on how to verify the signature are available from

https://www.redhat.com/security/team/key/#package

 

7. References:

 

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3274

http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

 

8. Contact:

 

The Red Hat security contact is . More contact

details at https://www.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

 

Copyright 2008 Red Hat, Inc.

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