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Red Hat Security Advisory 2013-0856-01

Red Hat Security Advisory 2013-0856-01
Posted May 23, 2013
Authored by Red Hat | Site access.redhat.com

Red Hat Security Advisory 2013-0856-01 - Red Hat Certificate System is an enterprise software system designed to manage enterprise Public Key Infrastructure deployments. The Token Processing System is a PKI subsystem that acts as a Registration Authority for authenticating and processing enrollment requests, PIN reset requests, and formatting requests from the Enterprise Security Client. A format string flaw was found in the TPS subsystem. An authenticated Certificate System user could use this flaw to crash the Apache HTTP Server child process, possibly interrupting the processing of other users' requests, or possibly execute arbitrary code with pkiuser privileges.

tags | advisory, web, arbitrary
systems | linux, redhat
advisories | CVE-2013-1885, CVE-2013-1886
SHA-256 | 42e949de483c7b1d285ed5c316c1bbf29566000c29b510ac9396eeab9c73dc36

Red Hat Security Advisory 2013-0856-01

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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Important: pki-tps security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2013:0856-01
Product: Red Hat Certificate System
Advisory URL: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0856.html
Issue date: 2013-05-22
CVE Names: CVE-2013-1885 CVE-2013-1886
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1. Summary:

An updated pki-tps package that fixes two security issues is now available
for Red Hat Certificate System 8.1.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having
important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base
scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each
vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Certificate System 8 - i386, x86_64

3. Description:

Red Hat Certificate System (RHCS) is an enterprise software system designed
to manage enterprise Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) deployments. The Token
Processing System (TPS) is a PKI subsystem that acts as a Registration
Authority (RA) for authenticating and processing enrollment requests, PIN
reset requests, and formatting requests from the Enterprise Security
Client.

A format string flaw was found in the TPS subsystem. An authenticated
Certificate System user could use this flaw to crash the Apache HTTP Server
child process, possibly interrupting the processing of other users'
requests, or possibly execute arbitrary code with pkiuser privileges.
(CVE-2013-1886)

A cross-site scripting flaw was discovered in the TPS subsystem. An
attacker could use this flaw to perform a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack
against victims using Certificate System's web interface. (CVE-2013-1885)

All users of Red Hat Certificate System are advised to upgrade to this
updated package, which corrects these issues. After installing this update,
all Red Hat Certificate System subsystems must be restarted ("/etc/init.d
/[instance-name] restart") for the update to take effect.

4. Solution:

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to
use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

5. Bugs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

923039 - CVE-2013-1885 Certificate System: pki-tps XSS flaw
924870 - CVE-2013-1886 Certificate System: pki-tps format string injection

6. Package List:

Red Hat Certificate System 8:

Source:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Server/en/RHCERT/SRPMS/pki-tps-8.1.3-5.el5pki.src.rpm

i386:
pki-tps-8.1.3-5.el5pki.i386.rpm

x86_64:
pki-tps-8.1.3-5.el5pki.x86_64.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/#package

7. References:

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2013-1885.html
https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2013-1886.html
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

8. Contact:

The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

Copyright 2013 Red Hat, Inc.
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