Bug 1132337 (CVE-2014-5338, CVE-2014-5339, CVE-2014-5340) - CVE-2014-5338 CVE-2014-5339 CVE-2014-5340 check-mk: multiple flaws fixed in versions 1.2.4p4 and 1.2.5i4
Summary: CVE-2014-5338 CVE-2014-5339 CVE-2014-5340 check-mk: multiple flaws fixed in v...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2014-5338, CVE-2014-5339, CVE-2014-5340
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1132339 1132341
Blocks: 1132344
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-08-21 07:52 UTC by Murray McAllister
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:21 UTC (History)
11 users (show)

Fixed In Version: check_mk 1.2.4p4, check_mk 1.2.5i4
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2015-07-29 06:08:14 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2015:1495 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 update 2015-07-29 08:26:26 UTC

Description Murray McAllister 2014-08-21 07:52:06 UTC
Deutsche Telekom CERT Advisory DTC-A-20140820-001 notes a number of security flaws have been fixed in check-mk (a Nagios plug-in) versions 1.2.4p4 and 1.2.5i4.

These include cross site scripting to remote code execution (due to insecure pickle() use). Further details are available from their advisory:

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/127941/DTC-A-20140820-001.txt

Some (not all!) of the individual fixes:

CVE-2014-5338
http://git.mathias-kettner.de/git/?p=check_mk.git;a=commit;h=4b71709456bfc2ffc27a3583f13cc2ac0e726709

CVE-2014-5339
http://git.mathias-kettner.de/git/?p=check_mk.git;a=commit;h=7998aa4d53d2fef7302c0761b9c8f47e2f626e18

CVE-2014-5340
http://git.mathias-kettner.de/git/?p=check_mk.git;a=commit;h=192d41525502dc8de10ac99f57bd988450c17566

Comment 1 Murray McAllister 2014-08-21 07:54:38 UTC
Created check-mk tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1132339]
Affects: epel-all [bug 1132341]

Comment 2 Murray McAllister 2014-08-21 07:55:35 UTC
> CVE-2014-5340
> http://git.mathias-kettner.de/git/?p=check_mk.git;a=commit;
> h=192d41525502dc8de10ac99f57bd988450c17566

That commit notes:

<b>Note:</b> This change makes the current Check_MK versions incompatible
to older versions.  In a mixed environment with old and new Check_MK versions or with old
and newer Python versions you have to force WATO to use the old
unsafe method by setting <tt>wato_legacy_eval = True<tt> in <tt>multisite.mk</tt>.
This can also be done with the new global WATO setting <i>Use unsafe legacy
encoding for distributed WATO</i>.

Comment 3 Andrea Veri 2014-09-14 22:09:32 UTC
Murray I'm a bit concerned about comment #2 as the multisite.mk file is actually modified by admins in many occasions and overwriting it definitely not a good solution but at the same time upgrading the package without 'wato_legacy_eval' flag set to true will result in WATO breakages.

Do you have any suggestion on how to handle the upgrade properly?

Comment 4 Murray McAllister 2014-09-16 07:38:30 UTC
Hello Andrea,

I do not have a solution that both fixes the issue and does not break any environments. Maybe wato_legacy_eval in wato.py (http://git.mathias-kettner.de/git/?p=check_mk.git;a=blobdiff;f=web/plugins/config/wato.py;h=317f59394bf731727b3662f5e38d6ffa21e3983c;hp=744dde1e35164c2442ad410f5d78ccc76431ca80;hb=192d41525502dc8de10ac99f57bd988450c17566;hpb=815e624ae4c406112721771de85e22cdef3cafe6) could be set to "True" for a time, allowing the upgrade and fixing the other issues. It could be changed back to False at a later date. On the other hand, this issue seems to be the pickle/important one :-/

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2014-09-27 09:42:58 UTC
check-mk-1.2.4p5-1.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2014-09-27 10:01:31 UTC
check-mk-1.2.4p5-1.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2014-09-27 10:06:40 UTC
check-mk-1.2.4p5-1.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2014-10-05 08:13:59 UTC
check-mk-1.2.4p5-2.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2014-10-10 15:58:53 UTC
check-mk-1.2.4p5-2.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2014-10-10 16:05:29 UTC
check-mk-1.2.4p5-2.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2014-10-17 17:35:59 UTC
check-mk-1.2.4p5-2.el6 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2014-10-17 17:36:53 UTC
check-mk-1.2.4p5-2.el7 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 13 Fedora Update System 2014-11-27 18:09:56 UTC
check-mk-1.2.4p5-1.el5 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2015-07-29 04:35:31 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6
  Native Client for RHEL 5 for Red Hat Storage
  Native Client for RHEL 6 for Red Hat Storage

Via RHSA-2015:1495 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1495.html


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