RHSA-2010:0775: Important: cobbler security update

First published: Mon Oct 18 2010(Updated: )

Cobbler is a network install server. Cobbler supports PXE, virtualized<br>installs, and re-installing existing Linux machines. Cheetah is a template<br>engine used by Cobbler to process kickstart files.<br>A code injection flaw was found in the way Cobbler processed templates for<br>kickstart files. A remote, authenticated user, that has the Configuration<br>Administrator role privilege, could use this flaw to create a<br>specially-crafted kickstart template file containing embedded Python code<br>that could, when processed by Cheetah, execute arbitrary code with root<br>privileges on the Red Hat Network Satellite Server. (CVE-2010-2235)<br>Red Hat would like to thank Doug Knight of the University of Alaska for<br>reporting this issue.<br>Users of Red Hat Network Satellite Server 5.3 are advised to upgrade to<br>this updated cobbler package, which contains backported patches to correct<br>this issue. Red Hat Network Satellite Server must be restarted<br>("/usr/sbin/rhn-satellite restart") for this update to take effect.<br>

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