RHSA-2012:0153

Vulnerability from csaf_redhat - Published: 2012-02-21 02:21 - Updated: 2025-11-21 17:39
Summary
Red Hat Security Advisory: sos security, bug fix, and enhancement update
Severity
Low
Notes
Topic: An updated sos package that fixes one security issue, several bugs, and adds various enhancements is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having low security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.
Details: Sos is a set of tools that gather information about system hardware and configuration. The sosreport utility incorrectly included Certificate-based Red Hat Network private entitlement keys in the resulting archive of debugging information. An attacker able to access the archive could use the keys to access Red Hat Network content available to the host. This issue did not affect users of Red Hat Network Classic. (CVE-2011-4083) This updated sos package also includes numerous bug fixes and enhancements. Space precludes documenting all of these changes in this advisory. Users are directed to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8 Technical Notes, linked to in the References, for information on the most significant of these changes. All sos users are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which resolves these issues and adds these enhancements.
Terms of Use: This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original.
CVE-2011-4083

The sosreport utility in the Red Hat sos package before 1.7-9 and 2.x before 2.2-17 includes (1) Certificate-based Red Hat Network private entitlement keys and the (2) private key for the entitlement in an archive of debugging information, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading the archive.

4.3 ()
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Affected products
Product Identifier Version Remediation
Unresolved product id: 5Client:sos-0:1.7-9.62.el5.noarch —
Vendor Fix fix
Unresolved product id: 5Client:sos-0:1.7-9.62.el5.src —
Vendor Fix fix
Unresolved product id: 5Server:sos-0:1.7-9.62.el5.noarch —
Vendor Fix fix
Unresolved product id: 5Server:sos-0:1.7-9.62.el5.src —
Vendor Fix fix
Threats
Impact Low
References
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