Moderate: spacewalk-backend security update

Synopsis

Moderate: spacewalk-backend security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update for spacewalk-backend is now available for Red Hat Satellite 5.6 and Red Hat Satellite 5.7.

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

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

Security Fix(es):

• It was found that spacewalk-channel can be used by a non-admin user or disabled users to perform administrative tasks due to an incorrect authorization check in backend/server/rhnChannel.py. (CVE-2017-7470)
  

Red Hat would like to thank Bert Stel (SUSE) for reporting this issue.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

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

For this update to take effect, Red Hat Satellite must be restarted ("/usr/sbin/rhn-satellite restart").

Affected Products

• Red Hat Satellite 5.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Satellite 5.7 s390x
• Red Hat Satellite 5.6 for RHEL 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Satellite 5.6 for RHEL 6 s390x
• Red Hat Satellite 5.6 for RHEL 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Satellite 5.6 for RHEL 5 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 1439622 - CVE-2017-7470 spacewalk-backend: spacewalk-channel can be used by non-admin or disabled users for performing administrative tasks

CVEs

• CVE-2017-7470

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate