4.3 - RHSA-2012:0153

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 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.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) - noarch Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) - 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. 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.

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/):

627416 - sos rfe - request to update sos plugin cs.py for Red Hat Certificate System 641020 - [RFE] improve sos plugin to capture MRG GRID related information 655046 - sosreport French translation of y/n prompt is wrong and confusing 673246 - [RFE] include output of ibv_devinfo command (libibverbs-utils package) in sosreport 677123 - RFE: iSCSI Target plugin for sosreport. 708346 - sosreport hangs the system when multiple SIGTERMs received 716987 - Relative symlink in created report for truncated log files is wrong 717167 - make non-standard log file collection more robust 717480 - Fix problems hidden by __raisePlugins__ = 0, create logging for plugin errors 717962 - When copying directory into report using addCopySpec, links inside are not handled correctly 726421 - [RFE] sosreport should collect the result of ethtool -g, ethtool -c, and ethtool -a by default 749383 - CVE-2011-4083 sos: sosreport is gathering certificate-based RHN entitlement private keys 750573 - sosreport cluster modules fail with badly formed cluster.conf