[RHSA-2013:0128-01] Low: conga security, bug fix, and enhancement update

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Red Hat Security Advisory

 

Synopsis: Low: conga security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Advisory ID: RHSA-2013:0128-01

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Advisory URL: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0128.html

Issue date: 2013-01-08

CVE Names: CVE-2012-3359

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1. Summary:

 

Updated conga packages that fix one security issue, multiple bugs, and add

two enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

 

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having low

security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,

which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in

the References section.

 

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

 

RHEL Clustering (v. 5 server) - i386, ia64, ppc, x86_64

 

3. Description:

 

The Conga project is a management system for remote workstations. It

consists of luci, which is a secure web-based front end, and ricci, which

is a secure daemon that dispatches incoming messages to underlying

management modules.

 

It was discovered that luci stored usernames and passwords in session

cookies. This issue prevented the session inactivity timeout feature from

working correctly, and allowed attackers able to get access to a session

cookie to obtain the victim's authentication credentials. (CVE-2012-3359)

 

Red Hat would like to thank George Hedfors of Cybercom Sweden East AB for

reporting this issue.

 

This update also fixes the following bugs:

 

* Prior to this update, luci did not allow the fence_apc_snmp agent to be

configured. As a consequence, users could not configure or view an existing

configuration for fence_apc_snmp. This update adds a new screen that allows

fence_apc_snmp to be configured. (BZ#832181)

 

* Prior to this update, luci did not allow the SSL operation of the

fence_ilo fence agent to be enabled or disabled. As a consequence, users

could not configure or view an existing configuration for the 'ssl'

attribute for fence_ilo. This update adds a checkbox to show whether the

SSL operation is enabled and allows users to edit that attribute.

(BZ#832183)

 

* Prior to this update, luci did not allow the "identity_file" attribute of

the fence_ilo_mp fence agent to be viewed or edited. As a consequence,

users could not configure or view an existing configuration for the

"identity_file" attribute of the fence_ilo_mp fence agent. This update adds

a text input box to show the current state of the "identity_file" attribute

of fence_ilo_mp and allows users to edit that attribute. (BZ#832185)

 

* Prior to this update, redundant files and directories remained on the

file system at /var/lib/luci/var/pts and /usr/lib{,64}/luci/zope/var/pts

when the luci package was uninstalled. This update removes these files

and directories when the luci package is uninstalled. (BZ#835649)

 

* Prior to this update, the "restart-disable" recovery policy was not

displayed in the recovery policy list from which users could select when

they configure a recovery policy for a failover domain. As a consequence,

the "restart-disable" recovery policy could not be set with the luci GUI.

This update adds the "restart-disable" recovery option to the recovery

policy pulldown list. (BZ#839732)

 

* Prior to this update, line breaks that were not anticipated in the "yum

list" output could cause package upgrade and/or installation to fail when

creating clusters or adding nodes to existing clusters. As a consequence,

creating clusters and adding cluster nodes to existing clusters could fail.

This update modifies the ricci daemon to be able to correctly handle line

breaks in the "yum list" output. (BZ#842865)

 

In addition, this update adds the following enhancements:

 

* This update adds support for configuring the Intel iPDU fence agent to

the luci package. (BZ#741986)

 

* This update adds support for viewing and changing the state of the new

'nfsrestart' attribute to the FS and Cluster FS resource agent

configuration screens. (BZ#822633)

 

All users of conga are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which

resolve these issues and add these enhancements. After installing this

update, the luci and ricci services will be restarted automatically.

 

4. Solution:

 

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

relevant to your system have been applied.

 

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

use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at

https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

 

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

 

607179 - CVE-2012-3359 conga: insecure handling of luci web interface sessions

832181 - fence_apc_snmp is missing from luci

832183 - Luci is missing configuration of ssl for fence_ilo

832185 - Luci cannot configure the "identity_file" attribute for fence_ilo_mp

835649 - luci uninstall will leave /var/lib/luci/var/pts and /usr/lib*/luci/zope/var/pts behind

839732 - Conga Add a Service Screen is Missing Option for Restart-Disable Recovery Policy

 

6. Package List:

 

RHEL Clustering (v. 5 server):

 

Source:

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Server/en/os/SRPMS/conga-0.12.2-64.el5.src.rpm

 

i386:

conga-debuginfo-0.12.2-64.el5.i386.rpm

luci-0.12.2-64.el5.i386.rpm

ricci-0.12.2-64.el5.i386.rpm

 

ia64:

conga-debuginfo-0.12.2-64.el5.ia64.rpm

luci-0.12.2-64.el5.ia64.rpm

ricci-0.12.2-64.el5.ia64.rpm

 

ppc:

conga-debuginfo-0.12.2-64.el5.ppc.rpm

luci-0.12.2-64.el5.ppc.rpm

ricci-0.12.2-64.el5.ppc.rpm

 

x86_64:

conga-debuginfo-0.12.2-64.el5.x86_64.rpm

luci-0.12.2-64.el5.x86_64.rpm

ricci-0.12.2-64.el5.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://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/#package

 

7. References:

 

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2012-3359.html

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

 

8. Contact:

 

The Red Hat security contact is . More contact

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

 

Copyright 2013 Red Hat, Inc.

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