Moderate: mod_auth_openidc security update

Synopsis

Moderate: mod_auth_openidc security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update for mod_auth_openidc is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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

mod_auth_openidc enables an Apache 2.x web server to operate as an OpenID Connect Relying Party and/or OAuth 2.0 Resource Server.

Security Fix(es):

• mod_auth_openidc: OIDC_CLAIM and OIDCAuthNHeader not skipped in an "AuthType oauth40" configuration (CVE-2017-6413)
  
• mod_auth_openidc: Shows user-supplied content on error pages (CVE-2017-6059)
  

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1425350 - CVE-2017-6059 mod_auth_openidc: Shows user-supplied content on error pages
• BZ - 1428855 - CVE-2017-6413 mod_auth_openidc: OIDC_CLAIM and OIDCAuthNHeader not skipped in an "AuthType oauth40" configuration

CVEs

• CVE-2017-6059
• CVE-2017-6413

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.7_release_notes/index