-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Note: the current version of the following document is available here: https://h20564.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_n a-c04989404 SUPPORT COMMUNICATION - SECURITY BULLETIN Document ID: c04989404 Version: 1 HPSBGN03547 rev.1 - HPE Helion Eucalyptus Node Controller and other Helion Eucalyptus Components using glibc, Remote Arbitrary Code Execution NOTICE: The information in this Security Bulletin should be acted upon as soon as possible. Release Date: 2016-02-18 Last Updated: 2016-02-18 Potential Security Impact: Remote Arbitrary Code Execution Source: Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Product Security Response Team VULNERABILITY SUMMARY A security vulnerability in glibc has been addressed with HPE Helion Eucalyptus Node Controller and other Helion Eucalyptus components. The vulnerability could be exploited remotely resulting in arbitrary execution of code. Notes: - A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability has been announced in the glibc library that affects all versions of glibc since 2.9. Glibc packages shipped with Red Hat and CentOS 6 are affected.To exploit the vulnerability, a remote attacker can create a specially crafted DNS response and potentially execute an arbitrary code on the host with the permissions of a user running glibc library. - Helion Eucalyptus Node Controller (NC) components are confirmed to be affected by the vulnerability. Other Helion Eucalyptus components and pre-bundled service EMIs do not directly expose the vulnerability, but because glibc is a commonly used library on Linux, the exact exposure is hard to determine. Any software performing domain name resolution is potentially vulnerable. References: - CVE-2015-7547 - PSRT110035 SUPPORTED SOFTWARE VERSIONS*: ONLY impacted versions are listed. - HPE Helion Eucalyptus 4.2.1 and earlier - HPE Helion Eucalyptus Service EMIs for Load Balancing and Imaging services package "eucalyptus-service-image-1.48-0.87.99" and earlier BACKGROUND CVSS 2.0 Base Metrics =========================================================== Reference Base Vector Base Score CVE-2015-7547 (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:P) 6.1 =========================================================== Information on CVSS is documented in HP Customer Notice: HPSN-2008-002 RESOLUTION HPE has made the following software updates and workaround information available to resolve the vulnerability with glibc for HPE Helion Eucalyptus. + All hosts running HPE Helion Eucalyptus services should be upgraded to the latest glibc. Updated glibc packages are available for RHEL and CentOS: https://access.redhat.com/articles/2161461 **RHEL Note:** After following the guidelines for RHEL, a reboot is the safest and recommended way to ensure that updates takes effect for all services. + New Helion Eucalyptus Service EMIs will be made available soon in the Eucalyptus software repositories at: http://downloads.eucalyptus.com/software/eucalyptus/4.2/ **Note:** This security bulletin will be revised when those updates are available. Until Helion Eucalyptus EMI updates are available, the following workaround is available to update the instances launched from eucalyptus-service-image-1.48-0.87.99 and earlier to the latest glibc packages. **Workaround:** As a cloud administrator: 1) create an update-glibc script with the following content: #! /bin/bash yum update -y glibc 2) set the following cloud properties to use that script on instance start: euctl services.imaging.worker.init_script=@update-glibc euctl services.loadbalancing.worker.init_script=@update-glibc This script will be automatically executed for each of the new instances started from the service image. For instances that are already running, the cloud administrator will need to terminate them and start again for the script to take effect. More specifically, for the Load Balancing service, the cloud admin needs to find all instances running under the "(eucalyptus)loadbalancing" account: # euare-accountlist | grep loadbalancing (eucalyptus)loadbalancing # euca-describe-instances verbose | grep And terminate them using euca-terminate-instances. New updated instances will be started automatically after that. For the Imaging Service, the imaging worker needs to be terminated and started again: # esi-manage-stack -a delete imaging # esi-manage-stack -a create imaging HISTORY Version:1 (rev.1) - 17 February 2016 Initial release Third Party Security Patches: Third party security patches that are to be installed on systems running Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) software products should be applied in accordance with the customer's patch management policy. Support: For issues about implementing the recommendations of this Security Bulletin, contact normal HPE Services support channel. 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