Bug 1155708 (CVE-2014-3712)

Summary: CVE-2014-3712 Katello: user parameters passed to to_sym
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Kurt Seifried <kseifried>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: bkearney, cbillett, cpelland, ehelms, jrusnack, katello-bugs, kseifried, mmccune, tjay, tomckay
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OS: Linux   
URL: http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/8263
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Bug Depends On: 1155711, 1155714, 1161010    
Bug Blocks: 1155710    

Description Kurt Seifried 2014-10-22 16:50:25 UTC 
Jan Rusnacko of Red Hat reports:

Katello code exposes potential to_sym Denial of Service attack vector from user input parameters. The two places identified are:

https://github.com/Katello/katello/blob/9231e24f93fa804e557fc95637cfa2c5bb92f6a7/app/controllers/katello/content_search_controller.rb#L617

https://github.com/Katello/katello/blob/9231e24f93fa804e557fc95637cfa2c5bb92f6a7/app/controllers/katello/api/api_controller.rb#L87

This type of attack is documented here - http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora_Security_Team/1/html/Secure_Ruby_Development_Guide/RubySymbols.html

This has been confirmed in testing by Eric Helms of Red Hat.
Comment 1 Kurt Seifried 2014-10-22 16:52:46 UTC 
*** Bug 1153824 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Murray McAllister 2014-10-23 01:43:08 UTC 
Acknowledgements:

This issue was discovered by Jan Rusnacko of Red Hat Product Security.
Comment 5 Eric Helms 2014-11-04 16:05:57 UTC 
Created redmine issue http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/8263 from this bug