Synopsis
Moderate: realmd security, bug fix, and enhancement update
Type/Severity
Security Advisory: Moderate
Topic
Updated realmd packages that fix two security issues, several bugs, and add
various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security
impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give
detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the
CVE links in the References section.
Description
The realmd DBus system service manages discovery of and enrollment in
realms and domains, such as Active Directory or Identity Management (IdM).
The realmd service detects available domains, automatically configures the
system, and joins it as an account to a domain.
A flaw was found in the way realmd parsed certain input when writing
configuration into the sssd.conf or smb.conf file. A remote attacker could
use this flaw to inject arbitrary configurations into these files via a
newline character in an LDAP response. (CVE-2015-2704)
It was found that the realm client would try to automatically join an
active directory domain without authentication, which could potentially
lead to privilege escalation within a specified domain. (BZ#1205751)
The realmd packages have been upgraded to upstream version 0.16.1, which
provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version.
(BZ#1174911)
This update also fixes the following bugs:
- Joining a Red Hat Enterprise Linux machine to a domain using the realm
utility creates /home/domainname/[username]/ directories for domain users.
Previously, SELinux labeled the domain users' directories incorrectly. As a
consequence, the domain users sometimes experienced problems with SELinux
policy. This update modifies the realmd service default behavior so that
the domain users' directories are compatible with the standard SELinux
policy. (BZ#1241832)
- Previously, the realm utility was unable to join or discover domains with
domain names containing underscore (_). The realmd service has been
modified to process underscores in domain names correctly, which fixes the
described bug. (BZ#1243771)
In addition, this update adds the following enhancement:
- The realmd utility now allows the user to disable automatic ID mapping
from the command line. To disable the mapping, pass the
"--automatic-id-mapping=no" option to the realmd utility. (BZ#1230941)
All realmd users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
correct these issues and add these enhancements.
Solution
Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.
For details on how to apply this update, refer to:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
Affected Products
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 7.6 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 7.5 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 7.4 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 7.3 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.6 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.6 s390x
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.5 s390x
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.4 s390x
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.3 s390x
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.6 ppc64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.5 ppc64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.4 ppc64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.3 ppc64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 7 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.6 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.5 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.4 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.3 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.4 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.3 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.6 ppc64le
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.5 ppc64le
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.4 ppc64le
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.3 ppc64le
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.2 ppc64le
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.6 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.3 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 ppc64le
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.4 ppc64le
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.3 ppc64le
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.4 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.3 x86_64
Fixes
- BZ - 1142191 - realm command crashes when no input password
- BZ - 1174911 - Rebase to 0.16.x
- BZ - 1205751 - realmd: unauthenticated Active Directory join
- BZ - 1205752 - CVE-2015-2704 realmd: untrusted data is used when configuring sssd.conf and/or smb.conf
- BZ - 1241832 - Wrong SELinux label on domain users home folders
- BZ - 1243771 - realm fails to join domain names with underscore in name
- BZ - 1271618 - net ads keytab add fails on system joined to AD with RHEL 7.2 realm join
CVEs
References
Vulmon