Bug 1057377 (CVE-2014-0022)
Summary: | CVE-2014-0022 yum: yum-cron installs unsigned packages | ||
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Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Vincent Danen <vdanen> |
Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | high | ||
Version: | unspecified | CC: | admiller, aneelica, ffesti, james.antill, jkurik, jrusnack, jzeleny, packaging-team-maint, pfrields, vkrizan |
Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
Doc Text: |
It was discovered that yum-updatesd did not properly perform RPM package signature checks. When yum-updatesd was configured to automatically install updates, a remote attacker could use this flaw to install a malicious update on the target system using an unsigned RPM or an RPM signed with an untrusted key.
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Story Points: | --- |
Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
Last Closed: | 2014-08-05 03:51:01 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Bug Depends On: | 1052440, 1052994, 1053202, 1125185 | ||
Bug Blocks: | 1057378 |
Description
Vincent Danen
2014-01-23 23:16:21 UTC
The comment 0 above explains that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 was not affected, as it did not include vulnerable version of yum-updatesd or yum-cron. This issue was resolved in yum-cron shipped as part of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 before its initial release. Statement: This issue did not affect the versions of yum as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7. It should also be noted that in their default configuration, yum-updatesd and yum-cron are not configured to automatically install available updates. They are configured to provide notification of updates availability. yum-cron is also configured to download updated packages, but not install them. This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Via RHSA-2014:1004 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1004.html IssueDescription: It was discovered that yum-updatesd did not properly perform RPM package signature checks. When yum-updatesd was configured to automatically install updates, a remote attacker could use this flaw to install a malicious update on the target system using an unsigned RPM or an RPM signed with an untrusted key. |