4.3 - RHSA-2011:1536

Problem Description:

An updated sos package that fixes one security issue, several bugs, and adds various enhancements is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

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.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) - noarch Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6) - noarch Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) - noarch Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) - noarch

3. Description:

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. Documentation for these bug fixes and enhancements will be available shortly from the Technical Notes document, linked to in the References section.

All users of sos are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which contains backported patches to correct these issues and add these enhancements.

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/kb/docs/DOC-11259

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

600813 - [RFE] capture complete list of yum repositories in sosreport 673244 - [RFE] include output of ibv_devinfo command (libibverbs-utils package) in sosreport 677124 - RFE: iSCSI Target plugin for sosreport. 682124 - sosreport does not capture nslcd.conf file. 683404 - autofs plugin does not collect chkconfig autofs status as intended 691477 - sosreport does not include lsusb output 709491 - grab vmmemctl 713449 - sosreport truncates leading and trailing whitespace from command outputs 726360 - Extend qpidd plugin 726427 - [RFE] sosreport should collect the result of ethtool -g, ethtool -c, and ethtool -a by default 736718 - path is wrong for hardware.py plugin 749383 - CVE-2011-4083 sos: sosreport is gathering certificate-based RHN entitlement private keys