[Pulp-list] Pulp 2.8.3 Release Candidate - Security & Bug fixes

Sean Myers sean.myers at redhat.com
Tue May 10 20:38:30 UTC 2016


The release candidate for Pulp 2.8.3 is now available.

Pulp has been updated, along with the Puppet (pulp_puppet) and RPM (pulp_rpm) plugins.

This release also includes candidatess for OSTree plugin (pulp_ostree) version
1.1.1, the Docker plugin (pulp_docker) version 2.0.1, and the Python plugin
(pulp_python) version 1.1.1.

The release is available in the pulp beta repository for 2.8:
https://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/pulp/pulp/beta/2.8/

Migrations will need to be run for this release. See the Upgrade Instructions
below for more details.


Security Issues Addressed
=========================

CVE-2016-3111 (Low Impact):
pulp.spec generates its RSA keys for message signing insecurely
https://pulp.plan.io/issues/1837

CVE-2016-3112 (Moderate Impact):
Pulp consumer private keys are world-readable
https://pulp.plan.io/issues/1834

CVE-2016-3107 (Moderate Impact):
Node certificate containing private key stored in world-readable file
https://pulp.plan.io/issues/1833

CVE-2016-3108 (Moderate Impact):
Insecure temporary file used when generating certificate for Pulp Nodes
https://pulp.plan.io/issues/1830

CVE-2016-3106 (Low Impact):
Insecure creation of temporary directory when generating new CA key
https://pulp.plan.io/issues/1827

Additionally, CVE-2013-7450 was announced during this release cycle, even 
though it was fixed in Pulp 2.3.0. Users who have upgraded from Pulp < 2.3.0 
may still be vulnerable, action may be required (see below).
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1003326

See the upgrade instructions below for more information on addressing these
vulnerabilities.


Known Issues
============

Changes to the squid package in fedora 22 are causing selinux denials to prevent squid
from starting on systems using pulp's lazy download features. At this time, all other
platforms appear to be working normally: only fedora 22 is affected.

This issue is being tracked in our tracker. Links to upstream issues and workarounds
can be found there:

https://pulp.plan.io/issues/1904


Issues Addressed
================

  Docker Support
	1818	Add migration - content units to standard storage path.
  Nectar
	1820	Fix checking for config.proxy_username
  OSTree Support
	1106	relative_path should be checked for url collision
  Pulp
	1576	content type mongo id searches not working
	1764	SELinux denial on Celery attempting to read resolv.conf
	1771	requests or urllib3 can't read a file which causes Nectar to fail mysteriously
	1801	Pulp celery_beat and resource_manager are running, but logs say they are not running
	1802	Pulp 2.8 client no longer supports sha1 RPM checksum type
	1809	python 2.6 incompatibility during set_importer
	1747	Import upload task has unexpected/missing information on error
	1784	regression: "pulp-admin rpm repo search" with filters does not work as expected
	1834	CVE-2016-3112: Pulp consumer private keys are world-readable
	1837	CVE-2016-3111: pulp.spec generates its RSA keys for message signing insecurely
	1791	After upgrading from 2.7.1 to pulp 2.8.0 getting 403 error's on all my Pulp repo's.
	1794	A Pulp unit test is failing to find a certificate to be valid
	1824	iso repo publish fails for file in subdirectories
	1827	CVE-2016-3106: Insecure creation of temporary directory when generating new CA key
	1830	CVE-2016-3108: Insecure temporary file used when generating certificate for Pulp Nodes
	1833	CVE-2016-3107: Node certificate containing private key stored in world-readable file
	1601	Migrate /var/lib/pulp/content to new 2.8 storage paths.
	1815	Create a common 2.8 storage path migration to be used by plugins
  Puppet Support
	1780	PLP0000: Update failed (The dotted field 'thomasmckay-rsync-0.4.1-thomasmckay'
	1817	Add migration - content units to standard storage path.
  Python Support
	1855	Upload broken
	1819	Add migration - content units to standard storage path.
  RPM Support
	1869	Resynchronizing rhel repos seems to be failing after upgrade
	1768	Unable to sync RHEL 5 repositories with a distribution
	1792	recursive and depsolving unit copy results in PulpExecutionException
	1843	Pulp publishes invalid PULP_DISTRIBUTION.xml metadata
	1778	Switching a repository to immediate from on_demand doesn't download its packages
	1828	pulp doesn't sync reference title correctly from errata
	1835	export fails when units are not downloaded
	1782	<reboot_suggested>None</reboot_suggested> in generated XML for unit with no 'reboot_suggested'
	1808	exporting a sufficiently large repo with 'on_demand' policy results in BSON error
	1812	Comps.xml upload succeeds but units are not associated to the repo.
	1813	Handle duplicate key error in comps.xml upload
	1856	publishing kickstart repo fails on EL6
	1816	Add migration - content units to standard storage path.


Upgrade instructions
====================

Some of the CVEs require user interaction to remedy. Begin by upgrading to  
Pulp 2.8.3, and running migrations:

$ sudo systemctl stop httpd pulp_workers pulp_resource_manager pulp_celerybeat goferd
$ sudo yum upgrade
$ sudo -u apache pulp-manage-db
$ sudo systemctl start httpd pulp_workers pulp_resource_manager pulp_celerybeat goferd

CVE-2016-3112 (Part I)
----------------------

The client certificate for consumers 
(/etc/pki/pulp/consumer/consumer-cert.pem) was installed world-readable. This 
issue has been fixed for new certificates issued to consumers, but upgrading 
to 2.8.3 does not modify the permissions of old certificates. It is  
recommended that users regenerate the certificates by unregistering and 
re-registering all consumers. However, the consumers cannot be re-registered 
until CVE-2013-7450, CVE-2016-3095, CVE-2016-3106, and CVE-2016-3111 have 
been addressed below. Thus, start by unregistering each of your consumers (we 
will return to this CVE later to re-register them):

$ sudo pulp-consumer unregister

CVE-2013-7450, CVE-2016-3095, and CVE-2016-3106
-----------------------------------------------

There are two reasons that you may wish to regenerate Pulp's internal 
certificate authority key and certificate. First, if your Pulp installation 
started off as a version lower than 2.3.0 and you are still using the default 
CA certificate and key that was distributed with those versions of Pulp, then 
you are still vulnerable to CVE-2013-7450 and it is crucial that you generate 
a new unique CA. 

Additionally, CVE-2016-3095 and CVE-2016-3106 made it possible for local 
attackers to read the CA key during generation (which happens during the 
initial installation of Pulp or any time an admin ran 
pulp-gen-ca-certificate). If you are concerned that a local user may have 
read that CA key during the brief window that it was visible it is  
recommended that you regenerate the key and cert.

To regenerate the certificate, you should remove the old one and then you may 
use the provided utility:

# First remove the old files so that the new files get the correct SELinux 
context.

$ sudo rm /etc/pki/pulp/ca.*
$ sudo pulp-gen-ca-certificate

If you choose not to perform the CA regeneration, you may wish to apply the 
correct SELinux type to your existing CA files as versions of Pulp < 2.8.3 
generated this file with an incorrect SELinux type. You don't need to do this 
if you removed the old file and regenerated it with pulp-gen-ca-certificate. 
You can run restorecon recursively on the /etc/pki/pulp folder to fix the 
SELinux label on your existing CA certificate:

# You only need to do this if you didn't regenerate the CA above.
$ sudo restorecon -R /etc/pki/pulp

CVE-2016-3107 and CVE-2016-3108
-------------------------------

For Nodes users, the /etc/pki/pulp/nodes/node.crt file was installed 
world-readable. Users are recommended to remove this file and regenerate it 
by running pulp-gen-nodes-certificate:

# It is important to remove the file so that the new file has the correct 
permissions.
$ sudo rm /etc/pki/pulp/nodes/node.crt
$ sudo pulp-gen-nodes-certificate

CVE-2016-3111
-------------

Both the RSA key pair for the Pulp server and RSA key pair for each Pulp 
consumer was generated during installation in an insecure directory. This 
vulnerability allowed a local attacker to read the private key portion of the 
key pair. These keys are used for message authentication between the Pulp 
server and the Pulp consumers. If you are concerned that a local attacker was 
able to read these keys, you can regenerate them. We do not ship a script to 
perform this, but the process is straight-forward. For the Pulp server, do 
the following as root:

$ cd /etc/pki/pulp/
$ rm rsa.key rsa_pub.key
$ umask 077
$ openssl genrsa -out rsa.key <bits>  # <bits> should be at least 2048
$ openssl rsa -in rsa.key -pubout > rsa_pub.key
$ chgrp apache rsa.key rsa_pub.key
$ chmod 640 rsa.key  # Apache must be able to read the private key
$ chmod 644 rsa_pub.key  # The public key is world-readable as it is served via Apache

The Pulp consumer key is similar:

$ cd /etc/pki/pulp/consumer/
$ rm rsa.key rsa_pub.key
$ umask 077
$ openssl genrsa -out rsa.key <bits>  # <bits> should be at least 2048
$ openssl rsa -in rsa.key -pubout > rsa_pub.key

CVE-2016-3112 (Part II)
-----------------------

Now that we have regenerated the server's CA certificate, we can finish 
re-registering each consumer to Pulp:

$ sudo pulp-consumer -u <admin-username> register --consumer-id=<consumer-id>

Restart
-------

Pulp services are now ready to be restarted again to pick up the new 
certificates. For systemd users:

$ sudo systemctl restart httpd pulp_workers pulp_resource_manager pulp_celerybeat goferd

Troubleshooting
---------------

Regenerating the CA certificate will invalidate all client certificates that 
were issued by the old CA. All users will need to login to Pulp again to 
obtain a new client certificate. If you forget a step, you may see one of the 
following error messages:

    "pulp.server.managers.auth.authentication:ERROR: Auth certificate with CN 
[admin:admin:57155b83e779896cb3d634a4] is signed by a foreign CA" (or 
similar) in the server log can indicate that httpd has not been restarted 
since the CA was replaced.
    "The specified user does not have permission to execute the given 
command" from pulp-admin can mean that the user has not logged in since the 
new CA was present, or that httpd has not been restarted since the 
certificate was replaced. More generally, this error message can also mean 
that the user is not authorized to perform the given action.
    "An error occurred attempting to contact the server. More information may 
be found using the -v flag." may be output by pulp-admin if you have 
restarted httpd but have not logged in again to get a new CA certificate. If 
you provide that -v flag and see "ConnectionException: (None, 'tlsv1 alert 
decrypt error', None)", this is likely the issue.



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