Issued:

2013-05-06

Updated:

2013-05-06

RHSA-2013:0788 - Moderate: subscription-manager security update

Synopsis

Moderate: subscription-manager security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

Updated subscription-manager packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

Description

The subscription-manager packages provide programs and libraries to allow users to manage subscriptions and yum repositories from the Red Hat Entitlement platform.

It was discovered that the rhn-migrate-classic-to-rhsm tool did not verify the Red Hat Network Classic server's X.509 certificate when migrating system profiles registered with Red Hat Network Classic to Certificate-based Red Hat Network. An attacker could use this flaw to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks, allowing them to obtain the user's Red Hat Network credentials. (CVE-2012-6137)

This issue was discovered by Florian Weimer of the Red Hat Product Security Team.

All users of subscription-manager are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to fix this issue.

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

Updated Packages

• subscription-manager-firstboot-1.1.23.1-1.el6_4.x86_64.rpm
• subscription-manager-1.1.23.1-1.el6_4.x86_64.rpm
• subscription-manager-gui-1.1.23.1-1.el6_4.x86_64.rpm
• subscription-manager-migration-1.0.24.1-1.el5_9.ia64.rpm
• subscription-manager-firstboot-1.0.24.1-1.el5_9.x86_64.rpm
• subscription-manager-debuginfo-1.0.24.1-1.el5_9.ia64.rpm
• subscription-manager-firstboot-1.1.23.1-1.el6_4.ppc64.rpm
• subscription-manager-migration-1.0.24.1-1.el5_9.x86_64.rpm
• subscription-manager-1.0.24.1-1.el5_9.s390x.rpm
• subscription-manager-gui-1.1.23.1-1.el6_4.ppc64.rpm
• subscription-manager-firstboot-1.1.23.1-1.el6_4.s390x.rpm
• subscription-manager-gui-1.1.23.1-1.el6_4.s390x.rpm
• subscription-manager-gui-1.1.23.1-1.el6_4.i686.rpm
• subscription-manager-gui-1.0.24.1-1.el5_9.ppc.rpm
• subscription-manager-gui-1.0.24.1-1.el5_9.i386.rpm
• subscription-manager-migration-1.1.23.1-1.el6_4.s390x.rpm
• subscription-manager-migration-1.1.23.1-1.el6_4.ppc64.rpm
• subscription-manager-firstboot-1.0.24.1-1.el5_9.i386.rpm
• subscription-manager-debuginfo-1.1.23.1-1.el6_4.i686.rpm
• subscription-manager-1.0.24.1-1.el5_9.i386.rpm
• subscription-manager-debuginfo-1.1.23.1-1.el6_4.s390x.rpm
• subscription-manager-debuginfo-1.0.24.1-1.el5_9.x86_64.rpm
• subscription-manager-gui-1.0.24.1-1.el5_9.s390x.rpm
• subscription-manager-migration-1.0.24.1-1.el5_9.s390x.rpm
• subscription-manager-1.0.24.1-1.el5_9.ppc.rpm
• subscription-manager-1.1.23.1-1.el6_4.i686.rpm
• subscription-manager-debuginfo-1.1.23.1-1.el6_4.x86_64.rpm
• subscription-manager-firstboot-1.0.24.1-1.el5_9.ppc.rpm
• subscription-manager-1.0.24.1-1.el5_9.x86_64.rpm
• subscription-manager-1.1.23.1-1.el6_4.s390x.rpm
• subscription-manager-debuginfo-1.1.23.1-1.el6_4.ppc64.rpm
• subscription-manager-firstboot-1.0.24.1-1.el5_9.s390x.rpm
• subscription-manager-debuginfo-1.0.24.1-1.el5_9.s390x.rpm
• subscription-manager-gui-1.0.24.1-1.el5_9.ia64.rpm
• subscription-manager-debuginfo-1.0.24.1-1.el5_9.ppc.rpm
• subscription-manager-firstboot-1.0.24.1-1.el5_9.ia64.rpm
• subscription-manager-debuginfo-1.0.24.1-1.el5_9.i386.rpm
• subscription-manager-migration-1.0.24.1-1.el5_9.ppc.rpm
• subscription-manager-1.0.24.1-1.el5_9.ia64.rpm
• subscription-manager-1.0.24.1-1.el5_9.src.rpm
• subscription-manager-firstboot-1.1.23.1-1.el6_4.i686.rpm
• subscription-manager-gui-1.0.24.1-1.el5_9.x86_64.rpm
• subscription-manager-1.1.23.1-1.el6_4.src.rpm
• subscription-manager-migration-1.1.23.1-1.el6_4.x86_64.rpm
• subscription-manager-migration-1.0.24.1-1.el5_9.i386.rpm
• subscription-manager-migration-1.1.23.1-1.el6_4.i686.rpm
• subscription-manager-1.1.23.1-1.el6_4.ppc64.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 885130

CVEs

• CVE-2012-6137

References

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

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
• Offline Security Data data is available for integration with other systems. See Offline Security Data API to get started.