2.1 - RHSA-2016:2597

Problem Description:

An update for firewalld is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - noarch Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) - noarch Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) - noarch Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) - noarch Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - noarch Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - noarch Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - noarch Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) - noarch

3. Description:

firewalld is a firewall service daemon that provides a dynamic customizable firewall with a D-Bus interface.

The following packages have been upgraded to a newer upstream version: firewalld (0.4.3.2). (BZ#1302802)

Security Fix(es):

* A flaw was found in the way firewalld allowed certain firewall configurations to be modified by unauthenticated users. Any locally logged in user could use this flaw to tamper or change firewall settings. (CVE-2016-5410)

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.

4. Solution:

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

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

1066037 - firewall-config should allow unspecifying zone binding for interface 1136801 - a rule added into IN__allow chain with 'permanent direct' interface doesn't exist after reload 1147500 - RFE: add command to firewall-cmd showing details of a service 1147951 - firewall-cmd should support a default logging option. 1219717 - Add radius TCP to policy. 1220196 - Firewalld missing policies for imap and smtps 1220467 - Option '--quiet' is needed in firewall-offline-cmd command line. 1237242 - Error: RT_TO_PERM_FAILED: zone 'dmz' : ZONE_CONFLICT when doing --runtime-to-permanent 1273296 - [ALL_LANG][firewalld] Translation incomplete 1273888 - Firewalld DefaultZone change breaking on --reload 1281416 - Headless firewall-config over ssh. firewall-config missing dependencies 1285769 - Fails to start without ip6t_rpfilter module 1292926 - firewalld --new-service & malformed xml ?? 1296573 - xsd specification nor service daemon checks whether tags are specified more than once if they must not 1301573 - firewalld reporting errors in logs for failed iptables commands 1302802 - Rebase to the new upstream and new release 1303026 - firewalld - mistake in renders ports remain closed, silently. 1305434 - Firewalld hangs with a NIS configuration 1313023 - command "systemctl reload firewalld" stops firewalld 1313845 - Backport After=dbus.service 1325335 - [RFE] allow negation of icmp-blocks zone configuration field 1326130 - firewalld stops traffic from/to 127.0.0.1 when masquerading is enabled in default zone 1326462 - rich rule with destination and no element give error 1347530 - Add port for corosync-qnetd to high-availability service 1349903 - FirewallD fails to parse direct rules with a lot of destination addresses 1357050 - exit codes don't match error messages in firewall-cmd 1360135 - CVE-2016-5410 firewalld: Firewall configuration can be modified by any logged in user 1360894 - Print errors and warnings to stderr 1365198 - firewall-cmd ipset --add-entries-from-file broken 1367038 - firewall-cmd crashes if /run/dbus/system_bus_socket does not exist 1368949 - Trying to get the description for a firewalld zone from command line throws error and prints traceback information. 1371116 - Load helper modules in FirewallZoneTransaction 1373260 - An error in the permanent direct rules will make all other direct rules using a table other than the filter table not applicable. 1374799 - exclude firewallctl from firewalld v0.4.3.2 update