Bug 1500742 (CVE-2017-14696) - CVE-2017-14696 salt: Remote DoS via crafted authentication request
Summary: CVE-2017-14696 salt: Remote DoS via crafted authentication request
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-14696
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1500750 1507416 1507418
Blocks: 1500752
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Reported: 2017-10-11 12:04 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2020-11-25 13:46 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

Fixed In Version: salt 2016.3.8, salt 2016.11.8, salt 2017.7.2
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:29:10 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-10-11 12:04:33 UTC 
An input validation vulnerability with a specially crafted authentication request was discover in salt. A remote attacker can use this for a Denial of Service attack.
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-10-11 12:06:46 UTC 
References:

https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2017.7.2.html
Comment 2 Andrej Nemec 2017-10-11 12:07:25 UTC 
Created salt tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1500750]
Comment 3 Siddharth Sharma 2017-10-12 10:25:51 UTC 
upstream fix:

https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/5f8b5e1a0f23fe0f2be5b3c3e04199b57a53db5b
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