Low: keycloak-httpd-client-install security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Synopsis

Low: keycloak-httpd-client-install security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Low

Topic

An update for keycloak-httpd-client-install is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. 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

The keycloak-httpd-client-install packages provide various libraries and tools that can automate and simplify the configuration of Apache httpd authentication modules when registering as a Red Hat Single Sign-On (RH-SSO, also called Keycloak) federated Identity Provider (IdP) client.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: keycloak-httpd-client-install (0.8). (BZ#1673716)

Security Fix(es):

• keycloak-httpd-client-install: unsafe /tmp log file in --log-file option in keycloak_cli.py (CVE-2017-15111)
  
• keycloak-httpd-client-install: unsafe use of -p/--admin-password on command line (CVE-2017-15112)
  

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

After installing the updated packages, the httpd daemon will be restarted automatically.

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 - 1511623 - CVE-2017-15111 keycloak-httpd-client-install: unsafe /tmp log file in --log-file option in keycloak_cli.py
• BZ - 1511626 - CVE-2017-15112 keycloak-httpd-client-install: unsafe use of -p/--admin-password on command line
• BZ - 1673716 - Rebase k-h-c-i to version 0.8

CVEs

• CVE-2017-15111
• CVE-2017-15112

References

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