Issued:
2012-12-06
Updated:
2012-12-06

RHSA-2012:1550 - Moderate: pki security update

Synopsis

Moderate: pki security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

Updated pki-common and pki-tps packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Certificate System 8.1.

The Red Hat Security Response Team 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

Red Hat Certificate System (RHCS) is an enterprise software system designed to manage enterprise Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) deployments.

Multiple cross-site scripting flaws were discovered in the Red Hat Certificate System. An attacker could use these flaws to perform a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack against victims using Certificate System's web interface. (CVE-2012-4543)

Multiple denial of service flaws were found in the Red Hat Certificate System token processing. A Certificate System user could use these flaws to crash the Apache httpd web server child process, possibly interrupting the processing of other users' requests. (CVE-2012-4555, CVE-2012-4556)

Red Hat would like to thank Patrick Raspante and Ryan Millay of GDC4S for reporting the CVE-2012-4555 and CVE-2012-4556 issues.

All users of Red Hat Certificate System are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which correct these issues. After installing this update, all Red Hat Certificate System subsystems must be restarted ("/etc/init.d /[instance-name] restart") for the update to take effect.

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

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Certificate System8x86_64
Red Hat Certificate System8i386

Updated Packages

  • pki-tps-8.1.3-2.el5pki.i386.rpm
  • pki-common-8.1.3-2.el5pki.src.rpm
  • pki-common-8.1.3-2.el5pki.noarch.rpm
  • pki-common-javadoc-8.1.3-2.el5pki.noarch.rpm
  • pki-tps-8.1.3-2.el5pki.src.rpm
  • pki-tps-8.1.3-2.el5pki.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information