Upstream information

CVE-2012-1145 at MITRE

Description

spacewalk-backend in Red Hat Network Satellite 5.4 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 does not properly authorize or authenticate uploads to the NULL organization when mod_wsgi is used, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (/var partition disk consumption and failed updates) via a large number of package uploads.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 5
Vector AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 751837 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products under general support and receiving all security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-CLIENT-TOOLS spacewalk-backend Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-CLIENT-TOOLS spacewalk-backend Unsupported
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SUSE Manager Server 1.2 spacewalk-backend Released
Products at an unknown state of their lifecycle.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1-CLIENT-TOOLS spacewalk-backend Affected

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 08:33:09 2013
CVE page last modified: Tue Jul 2 15:42:34 2024