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Bug 820415 - CVE-2012-3478 rssh: possible circumvention of rssh restrictions [fedora-all]
Summary: CVE-2012-3478 rssh: possible circumvention of rssh restrictions [fedora-all]
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: rssh
Version: 16
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: CVE-2012-3478
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-05-09 20:48 UTC by Vincent Danen
Modified: 2013-01-12 01:00 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Doc Type: Release Note
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Last Closed: 2012-12-19 08:34:24 UTC
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Description Vincent Danen 2012-05-09 20:48:50 UTC 
This is an automatically created tracking bug!  It was created to ensure
that one or more security vulnerabilities are fixed in affected Fedora
versions.

For comments that are specific to the vulnerability please use bugs filed
against "Security Response" product referenced in the "Blocks" field.

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Only one tracking bug has been filed; please ensure that it is only closed
when all affected versions are fixed.


[bug automatically created by: add-tracking-bugs]
Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2012-05-09 20:50:53 UTC 
There is no upstream fix, and the upstream author has no intention of fixing the problem, or in continuing to maintain the software, as noted in the vulnerability report.

I think that, unless we want to invest in finding an appropriate fix and maintaining this ourselves, we should remove rssh from Fedora and EPEL, due to upstream's disinterest in maintaining it.
Comment 2 Rahul Sundaram 2012-05-10 10:22:27 UTC 
I have orphaned the package.   If anyone doesn't want to take over and fix the security issue, they will have to retire it.  I know OLPC is using this package so I am giving them a chance to deal with this first.
Comment 3 Gwyn Ciesla 2012-05-10 12:45:03 UTC 
Could OLPC use scponly instead?
Comment 4 Till Maas 2012-06-30 17:26:31 UTC 
(In reply to comment #3)
> Could OLPC use scponly instead?

They can probably just configure OpenSSH properly, for example by using
ForceCommand=internal-sftp
according to the sshd_config man page.
Comment 5 Tomas Hoger 2012-11-21 14:59:15 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> I have orphaned the package.   If anyone doesn't want to take over and fix
> the security issue, they will have to retire it.  I know OLPC is using this
> package so I am giving them a chance to deal with this first.

Any progress with having this package retired?
Comment 6 Tomas Hoger 2012-12-10 17:54:25 UTC 
Patch is in bug 877279 comment 15.
Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2012-12-11 08:57:41 UTC 
rssh-2.3.4-1.fc18 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 18.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-20111/rssh-2.3.4-1.fc18
Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2012-12-11 08:58:06 UTC 
rssh-2.3.4-1.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-20109/rssh-2.3.4-1.fc17
Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2012-12-11 09:38:19 UTC 
rssh-2.3.4-1.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/rssh-2.3.4-1.fc16
Comment 10 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2012-12-11 10:04:41 UTC 
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.
Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2012-12-12 08:20:41 UTC 
Package rssh-2.3.4-1.fc16:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 16 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing rssh-2.3.4-1.fc16'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-20236/rssh-2.3.4-1.fc16
then log in and leave karma (feedback).
Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2012-12-19 08:34:27 UTC 
rssh-2.3.4-1.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 13 Fedora Update System 2013-01-12 01:00:05 UTC 
rssh-2.3.4-1.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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