Bug 989755 (CVE-2013-4180)

Summary: CVE-2013-4180 Foreman: hosts_controller.rb power/ipmi_boot Symbol creation DoS
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Kurt Seifried <kseifried>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Version: unspecifiedCC: aortega, apevec, ayoung, chrisw, gkotton, iheim, jrusnack, kseifried, lhh, markmc, mhulan, ohadlevy, ohochman, rbryant, sclewis, security-response-team, yeylon
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Bug Depends On: 994835, 994836, 995306, 995307    
Bug Blocks: 989761    

Description Kurt Seifried 2013-07-29 20:45:35 UTC 
Marek Hulan (mhulan) reports:

I found a DoS bug in foreman. The problem is in converting a user input into a 
symbol. Since MRI garbage collector does not free any instantiated symbol any 
authenticated user can create inputs to consume all system memory. Memory 
consumption is linear (input size = consumed memory amount) and every input 
must be unique. Since the input comes from HTTP request via method PUT it's 
not hard to send large portion of data at a time. Basically an attacker is 
just limited by HTTP protocol and server configuration.
Comment 1 Marek Hulan 2013-07-31 13:00:24 UTC 
http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/2860
Comment 5 Murray McAllister 2013-09-02 14:56:26 UTC 
Acknowledgements:

This issue was discovered by Marek Hulán of the Red Hat Foreman team.
Comment 6 Marek Hulan 2013-09-03 15:15:14 UTC 
Fixed in upstream
http://projects.theforeman.org/projects/foreman/repository/revisions/d370f4aac4efab233371d243e1414f843d6dcae6
Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2013-09-03 20:26:10 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  OpenStack 3 for RHEL 6

Via RHSA-2013:1196 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1196.html