Bug 1497971 – CVE-2017-14955 check-mk: Mishandles certain errors within the failed-login save feature because of a race condition

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Bug 1497971 - (CVE-2017-14955) CVE-2017-14955 check-mk: Mishandles certain errors within the failed-login save feature because of a race condition

Summary:	CVE-2017-14955 check-mk: Mishandles certain errors within the failed-login sa...

Status:	NEW

Aliases:	CVE-2017-14955

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:	1497972 1497973
Blocks:	1497974
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Reported:	2017-10-03 05:17 EDT by Andrej Nemec
Modified:	2017-10-04 00:37 EDT (History)
CC List:	5 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	check-mk 1.2.8p26
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-10-03 05:17:58 EDT

Check_MK before 1.2.8p26 mishandles certain errors within the failed-login save feature because of a race condition, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive user information by reading a GUI crash report.

External References:

https://mathias-kettner.de/check_mk_werks.php?werk_id=5208

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-10-03 05:18:19 EDT

Created check-mk tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1497972]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1497973]

Comment 2 Siddharth Sharma 2017-10-04 00:30:46 EDT

Upstream Fix:

http://git.mathias-kettner.de/git/?p=check_mk.git;a=patch;h=a4a2cc1f30ff6032899ca80eed29fa26b8898c54

Comment 3 Siddharth Sharma 2017-10-04 00:37:04 EDT

Statement:

Red Hat Gluster Storage 3 is not affected because affected code is not shipped in the product. Affected code is present in check-mk-multisite rpm which is not shipped in this product.

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