Bug 1126002 (CVE-2014-3585)

Summary: CVE-2014-3585 redhat-upgrade-tool: does not check GPG signatures on package installation
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Vincent Danen <vdanen>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Version: unspecifiedCC: bressers, dshea, phracek, security-response-team, ttomecek, vkaigoro, wmealing
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OS: Linux   
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It was found that the redhat-upgrade-tool did not check GPG signatures on downloaded and installed packages during the upgrade process.
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Last Closed: 2015-11-20 15:42:36 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 1123915, 1144549, 1201821, 1201822    
Bug Blocks: 1126004    

Description Vincent Danen 2014-08-01 14:49:18 UTC
Juraj Marko reported [1] that the redhat-upgrade-tool does not implement proper GPG signature checking when upgrading from one version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux to another.

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1123915

Comment 2 Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-03-13 15:18:46 UTC
This issue was fixed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 with the following errata: 

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2014-1396.html

Comment 4 Wade Mealing 2015-03-17 00:08:59 UTC
Acknowledgements:

This issue was discovered by Juraj Marko of the Red Hat QE Team.

Comment 7 Vincent Danen 2015-11-20 15:42:36 UTC
This was fixed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 via:

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2015-2395.html