Issued:

2016-11-03

Updated:

2016-11-03

RHSA-2016:2592 - Moderate: subscription-manager security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Synopsis

Moderate: subscription-manager security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

An update for subscription-manager, subscription-manager-migration-data, and python-rhsm 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

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

The subscription-manager-migration-data package provides certificates for migrating a system from the legacy Red Hat Network Classic (RHN) to Red Hat Subscription Management (RHSM).

The python-rhsm packages provide a library for communicating with the representational state transfer (REST) interface of a Red Hat Unified Entitlement Platform. The Subscription Management tools use this interface to manage system entitlements, certificates, and access to content.

The following packages have been upgraded to a newer upstream version: subscription-manager (1.17.15), python-rhsm (1.17.9), subscription-manager-migration-data (2.0.31). (BZ#1328553, BZ#1328555, BZ#1328559)

Security Fix(es):

• It was found that subscription-manager set weak permissions on files in /var/lib/rhsm/, causing an information disclosure. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to access sensitive data that could potentially be used in a social engineering attack. (CVE-2016-4455)

Red Hat would like to thank Robert Scheck for reporting this issue.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 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

Updated Packages

• python-rhsm-debuginfo-1.17.9-1.el7.aarch64.rpm
• subscription-manager-debuginfo-1.17.15-1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
• subscription-manager-gui-1.17.15-1.el7.aarch64.rpm
• python-rhsm-1.17.9-1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
• python-rhsm-certificates-1.17.9-1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
• python-rhsm-certificates-1.17.9-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
• subscription-manager-gui-1.17.15-1.el7.s390x.rpm
• subscription-manager-migration-1.17.15-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
• subscription-manager-1.17.15-1.el7.src.rpm
• subscription-manager-migration-data-2.0.31-1.el7.noarch.rpm
• subscription-manager-plugin-ostree-1.17.15-1.el7.aarch64.rpm
• subscription-manager-plugin-ostree-1.17.15-1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
• subscription-manager-initial-setup-addon-1.17.15-1.el7.aarch64.rpm
• subscription-manager-migration-1.17.15-1.el7.ppc64.rpm
• python-rhsm-debuginfo-1.17.9-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
• subscription-manager-gui-1.17.15-1.el7.ppc64.rpm
• python-rhsm-1.17.9-1.el7.src.rpm
• python-rhsm-debuginfo-1.17.9-1.el7.s390x.rpm
• subscription-manager-initial-setup-addon-1.17.15-1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
• subscription-manager-plugin-container-1.17.15-1.el7.aarch64.rpm
• subscription-manager-migration-1.17.15-1.el7.aarch64.rpm
• subscription-manager-migration-data-2.0.31-1.el7.src.rpm
• subscription-manager-plugin-container-1.17.15-1.el7.ppc64.rpm
• subscription-manager-1.17.15-1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
• subscription-manager-migration-1.17.15-1.el7.s390x.rpm
• subscription-manager-plugin-container-1.17.15-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
• subscription-manager-1.17.15-1.el7.aarch64.rpm
• python-rhsm-1.17.9-1.el7.aarch64.rpm
• subscription-manager-plugin-ostree-1.17.15-1.el7.s390x.rpm
• subscription-manager-plugin-ostree-1.17.15-1.el7.ppc64.rpm
• subscription-manager-1.17.15-1.el7.s390x.rpm
• subscription-manager-initial-setup-addon-1.17.15-1.el7.s390x.rpm
• subscription-manager-debuginfo-1.17.15-1.el7.ppc64.rpm
• subscription-manager-migration-1.17.15-1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
• subscription-manager-plugin-container-1.17.15-1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
• python-rhsm-debuginfo-1.17.9-1.el7.ppc64.rpm
• subscription-manager-plugin-container-1.17.15-1.el7.s390x.rpm
• subscription-manager-plugin-ostree-1.17.15-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
• python-rhsm-certificates-1.17.9-1.el7.ppc64.rpm
• subscription-manager-1.17.15-1.el7.ppc64.rpm
• subscription-manager-1.17.15-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
• python-rhsm-certificates-1.17.9-1.el7.s390x.rpm
• subscription-manager-debuginfo-1.17.15-1.el7.s390x.rpm
• subscription-manager-debuginfo-1.17.15-1.el7.aarch64.rpm
• python-rhsm-1.17.9-1.el7.ppc64.rpm
• python-rhsm-debuginfo-1.17.9-1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
• subscription-manager-debuginfo-1.17.15-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
• subscription-manager-initial-setup-addon-1.17.15-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
• subscription-manager-gui-1.17.15-1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
• subscription-manager-initial-setup-addon-1.17.15-1.el7.ppc64.rpm
• subscription-manager-gui-1.17.15-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
• python-rhsm-1.17.9-1.el7.s390x.rpm
• python-rhsm-1.17.9-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
• python-rhsm-certificates-1.17.9-1.el7.aarch64.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 874735
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• This content is not included.BZ - 1268307
• This content is not included.BZ - 1306004
• This content is not included.BZ - 1315901
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• This content is not included.BZ - 1328555
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• This content is not included.BZ - 1328579
• This content is not included.BZ - 1328609
• This content is not included.BZ - 1328628
• This content is not included.BZ - 1328729
• This content is not included.BZ - 1329397
• This content is not included.BZ - 1330021
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• This content is not included.BZ - 1330515
• This content is not included.BZ - 1333545
• This content is not included.BZ - 1333904
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• This content is not included.BZ - 1334916
• This content is not included.BZ - 1335371
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• This content is not included.BZ - 1336428
• This content is not included.BZ - 1336880
• This content is not included.BZ - 1336883
• This content is not included.BZ - 1340135
• This content is not included.BZ - 1340525
• This content is not included.BZ - 1345962
• This content is not included.BZ - 1346417
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• This content is not included.BZ - 1349538
• This content is not included.BZ - 1349584
• This content is not included.BZ - 1349592
• This content is not included.BZ - 1351370
• This content is not included.BZ - 1353662
• This content is not included.BZ - 1354653
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• This content is not included.BZ - 1366301
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• This content is not included.BZ - 1366799
• This content is not included.BZ - 1367243
• This content is not included.BZ - 1367657
• This content is not included.BZ - 1369522
• This content is not included.BZ - 1372673

CVEs

• CVE-2016-4455

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.