National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-1145

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: XF

Name: network-satellite-null-sec-bypass(74498)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/74498

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1026873

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026873

External Source: BID

Name: 52832

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52832

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 81481

Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/81481

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 48664

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/48664

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2012:0436

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0436.html