Bug 1126002 – CVE-2014-3585 redhat-upgrade-tool: does not check GPG signatures on package installation

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Bug 1126002 - (CVE-2014-3585) CVE-2014-3585 redhat-upgrade-tool: does not check GPG signatures on package installation

Summary:	CVE-2014-3585 redhat-upgrade-tool: does not check GPG signatures on package i...

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2014-3585

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

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Depends On:	1123915 1144549 1201821 1201822
Blocks:	1126004
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Reported:	2014-08-01 10:49 EDT by Vincent Danen
Modified:	2015-11-20 10:42 EST (History)
CC List:	7 users (show)

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Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	It was found that the redhat-upgrade-tool did not check GPG signatures on downloaded and installed packages during the upgrade process.
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Last Closed:	2015-11-20 10:42:36 EST
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Description Vincent Danen 2014-08-01 10:49:18 EDT

Juraj Marko reported [1] that the redhat-upgrade-tool does not implement proper GPG signature checking when upgrading from one version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux to another.

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1123915

Comment 2 Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-03-13 11:18:46 EDT

This issue was fixed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 with the following errata: 

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2014-1396.html

Comment 4 Wade Mealing 2015-03-16 20:08:59 EDT

Acknowledgements:

This issue was discovered by Juraj Marko of the Red Hat QE Team.

Comment 7 Vincent Danen 2015-11-20 10:42:36 EST

This was fixed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 via:

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2015-2395.html

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