Bug 1500742 (CVE-2017-14696)

Summary: CVE-2017-14696 salt: Remote DoS via crafted authentication request
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecifiedCC: andrewniemants, david-dm.murphy, erik, herlo1, jeff, sisharma
Target Milestone: ---Keywords: Security
Target Release: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version: salt 2016.3.8, salt 2016.11.8, salt 2017.7.2 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:
Story Points: ---
Clone Of: Environment:
Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:29:10 UTC Type: ---
Regression: --- Mount Type: ---
Documentation: --- CRM:
Verified Versions: Category: ---
oVirt Team: --- RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team: --- Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:
Bug Depends On: 1500750, 1507416, 1507418    
Bug Blocks: 1500752    

Description Andrej Nemec 2017-10-11 12:04:33 UTC 
An input validation vulnerability with a specially crafted authentication request was discover in salt. A remote attacker can use this for a Denial of Service attack.
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-10-11 12:06:46 UTC 
References:

https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2017.7.2.html
Comment 2 Andrej Nemec 2017-10-11 12:07:25 UTC 
Created salt tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1500750]
Comment 3 Siddharth Sharma 2017-10-12 10:25:51 UTC 
upstream fix:

https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/5f8b5e1a0f23fe0f2be5b3c3e04199b57a53db5b