Bug 1212788 (CVE-2015-1839)

Summary:	CVE-2015-1839 salt: insecure /tmp file handling in salt/modules/chef.py
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Vasyl Kaigorodov <vkaigoro>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	andrewniemants, ceph-eng-bugs, erik, gmeno, herlo1, kdreyer
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	SaltStack 2014.7.4	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Bug Depends On:	1212789, 1212790
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Description Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-04-17 10:14:30 UTC

Michael Scherer of Red Hat reported an insecure /tmp file handling in salt/modules/chef.py in SaltStack.
This issue is fixed in SaltStack version 2014.7.4 with these commits:

https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/22d2f7a1ec93300c34e8c42d14ec39d51e610b5c
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/b49d0d4b5ca5c6f31f03e2caf97cef1088eeed81

External References:

http://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2014.7.4.html

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank Michael Scherer of Red Hat for reporting this issue.

Statement:

This issue did not affect versions of salt as shipped with Red Hat Red Hat Ceph Storage as they did not include the vulnerable module.

Comment 1 Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-04-17 10:15:38 UTC

Created salt tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1212789]
Affects: epel-all [bug 1212790]

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2016-01-15 23:25:22 UTC

salt-2015.5.8-1.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.