Yum 'yum-cron/yum-cron.py 'Security Restriction Bypass Vulnerability

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Author: User

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Affected Systems:
Baseurl yum 3.4.3
Description:
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Bugtraq id: 65119
CVE (CAN) ID: CVE-2014-0022

Yum is a package manager under Fedora and RedHat linux.

In Yum 3.4.3 and earlier versions, the installUpdates function of yum-cron/yum-cron.py does not properly check the return value of the sigCheckPkg function, which allows remote attackers to pass unsigned software packages, this vulnerability bypasses the RMP Software Package signature restriction.

<* Source: Gabriel VLASIU

Link: http://secunia.com/advisories/56637
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Suggestion:
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Vendor patch:

Baseurl
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The vendor has released a patch to fix this security problem. Please download it from the vendor's homepage:

Http://yum.baseurl.org
Http://yum.baseurl.org/gitweb? P = yum. git; a = commitdiff; h = 9df69e5794

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