Bug 820415
| Summary: | CVE-2012-3478 rssh: possible circumvention of rssh restrictions [fedora-all] | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Vincent Danen <vdanen> |
| Component: | rssh | Assignee: | Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 16 | CC: | gwync, metherid, opensource, plautrba, thoger |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security, SecurityTracking |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Release Note | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2012-12-19 08:34:24 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: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 820414 | ||
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Description
Vincent Danen
2012-05-09 20:48:50 UTC
There is no upstream fix, and the upstream author has no intention of fixing the problem, or in continuing to maintain the software, as noted in the vulnerability report. I think that, unless we want to invest in finding an appropriate fix and maintaining this ourselves, we should remove rssh from Fedora and EPEL, due to upstream's disinterest in maintaining it. I have orphaned the package. If anyone doesn't want to take over and fix the security issue, they will have to retire it. I know OLPC is using this package so I am giving them a chance to deal with this first. Could OLPC use scponly instead? (In reply to comment #3) > Could OLPC use scponly instead? They can probably just configure OpenSSH properly, for example by using ForceCommand=internal-sftp according to the sshd_config man page. (In reply to comment #2) > I have orphaned the package. If anyone doesn't want to take over and fix > the security issue, they will have to retire it. I know OLPC is using this > package so I am giving them a chance to deal with this first. Any progress with having this package retired? Patch is in bug 877279 comment 15. rssh-2.3.4-1.fc18 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 18. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-20111/rssh-2.3.4-1.fc18 rssh-2.3.4-1.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-20109/rssh-2.3.4-1.fc17 rssh-2.3.4-1.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/rssh-2.3.4-1.fc16 This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database. Reassigning to the new owner of this component. Package rssh-2.3.4-1.fc16: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 16 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing rssh-2.3.4-1.fc16' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-20236/rssh-2.3.4-1.fc16 then log in and leave karma (feedback). rssh-2.3.4-1.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. rssh-2.3.4-1.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. |