Bug 1477403 (CVE-2017-7549) - CVE-2017-7549 instack-undercloud: uses hardcoded /tmp paths
Summary: CVE-2017-7549 instack-undercloud: uses hardcoded /tmp paths
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2017-7549
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1477414 1477415 1477416 1477417 1477418 1477419 1477420 1481447
Blocks: 1470192
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-08-02 01:44 UTC by Summer Long
Modified: 2021-02-17 01:47 UTC (History)
22 users (show)

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A flaw was found in instack-undercloud where pre-install and security policy scripts used insecure temporary files. A local user could exploit this flaw to conduct a symbolic-link attack, allowing them to overwrite the contents of arbitrary files.
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Last Closed: 2017-12-14 01:16:02 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:2557 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: instack-undercloud security update 2017-08-30 17:47:40 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:2649 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: instack-undercloud security, bug fix, and enhancement update 2017-09-06 20:53:50 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:2687 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: instack-undercloud security update 2017-09-12 21:09:10 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:2693 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: instack-undercloud security update 2017-09-12 20:58:05 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:2726 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: instack-undercloud security, bug fix, and enhancement update 2017-09-14 01:46:06 UTC

Description Summer Long 2017-08-02 01:44:45 UTC 
Description of problem:
* /usr/share/instack-undercloud/ipxe/post-install.d/86-selinux uses: /tmp/ipxe.mod
  to compile the selinux policy
* isolated-build/pre-install.d/00-disable-external-installs uses /tmp/yum-blacklist (all versions)
Comment 1 Summer Long 2017-08-02 01:44:56 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: Matthew Booth (Red Hat)
Comment 6 Summer Long 2017-08-14 22:02:20 UTC 
Created instack-undercloud tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: openstack-rdo [bug 1481447]
Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2017-08-30 13:48:30 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9.0 (Mitaka) director

Via RHSA-2017:2557 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2557
Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2017-09-06 17:04:03 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 (Newton)

Via RHSA-2017:2649 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2649
Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2017-09-12 16:58:49 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform director 7.0 for RHEL 7

Via RHSA-2017:2693 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2693
Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2017-09-12 17:11:22 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8.0 (Liberty) director

Via RHSA-2017:2687 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2687
Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2017-09-13 21:47:59 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11.0 (Ocata)

Via RHSA-2017:2726 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2726
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