CVE-2014-8583

It was discovered that mod_wsgi incorrectly handled errors when setting up the working directory and group access rights. A malicious application could possibly use this issue to cause a local privilege escalation when using daemon mode (CVE-2014-8583).

This collective update for SUSE Manager Server 2.1 provides the following new features:

* Connect SUSE Manager to the SUSE Customer Center.
* Manage SLE12 systems.
* ISS: export/import information about cloned channels to support
  Service Pack migration on ISS slaves. (FATE#317789)
* New API calls: system.scheduleSPMigration(),
  system.scheduleDistUpgrade(). (FATE#314785, FATE#314340)

Additionally, several issues have been fixed:

auditlog-keeper:

* Fix value too long for type character varying(2048). (bnc#872351)
* Fix init.d script restart. (bsc#872029)

cobbler:

* Require syslinux-x86_64 on s390x. (bsc#884051)
* Fix fetching of profiles for auto-installation. (bsc#880936)
* Fix port guessing in koan. (bsc#855389)
* Add 'copy-default' option to grubby-compat. (bsc#855389)
* Handle elilo in SUSE. (bsc#855389)
* Fix wrong option 'text' in SUSE environment. (bsc#901058)
* Fix re-installation on SLE with static network configuration.
  (bsc#883487)
* Add RHEL 7 as a valid operating system version.

oracle-config:

* No need to pre-require Apache as its user and group are available in
  the base system.

osad:

* Enable and install osad during first installation. (bsc#901958)

pxe-default-image:

* Add bind-utils (dig) to packagelist. (bsc#889739)
* Wait for gateway to become available before register. (bsc#895001)

rhnlib:

* Ensure bytes strings are sent to pyOpenSSL. (bnc#880388)

rhnpush:

* Add default path structure to proxy lookaside that avoids collisions.

sm-ncc-sync-data:

* Add SUSE Cloud 4 channels. (bnc#883057)
* Add channels for SUSE Manager Server 2.1 s390x.
* Fix parent label of the LTSS channel for SLMS.
* Add ATI and nVidia channels for SLED11-SP3. (bsc#901108)
* Add support for RES7 in SUSE Manager. (bsc#897723, bsc#893608)

smdba:

* Fix 'system check breaks backup and other configuration'.
* Implement rotating PostgreSQL backup. (bsc#896244)
* Space reclamation caused ORA-00942: table or view does not exist.
  (bsc#906850)
* Archival of PosgreSQL transaction log does not recover in case of no
  space left on device. (bsc#915140)

spacecmd:

* Fix listupgrades. (bsc#892707)
* Make print_result a static method of SpacewalkShell. (bsc#889605)
* Call listAutoinstallableChannels() for listing distributions.
  (bsc#887879)
* Fix spacecmd schedule listing. (bsc#902494)
* Fix call of setCustomOptions() during kickstart_importjson.
  (bsc#879904)
* Fix configchannel export: do not create 'contents' key for
  directories. (bsc#908849)

spacewalk-backend:

* Insert update tag at the correct place for SLE12. (bsc#907677)
* Trigger generation of metadata if the repo contains no packages.
  (bsc#870159)
* Convert mtime to localtime to prevent invalid times because of DST.
  (bsc#914437)
* Do not exit with error if a vendor channel has no URL associated.
  (bsc#914260)
* Convert empty string to null for DMI values. (bsc#911272)

spacewalk-branding:

* CVE patches adapted for colour blind users. (bnc#872298)
* Underline in icons is removed. (bnc#880001)
* Fix link to macro documentation. (bsc#895961)
* Fix branding in error message. (bsc#902503)

spacewalk-certs-tools:

* Fix removal of existing host key entries. (bsc#886391)
* Remove duplicates from authorized_keys2 as well. (bsc#885889)
* Do not allow registering a SUSE Manager server against itself.
  (bsc#841731)

spacewalk-client-tools:

* Allow unicode characters in proxy username and password.
* Send correct hostname. (bsc#887538)

spacewalk-config:

* Add recommended Apache settings from the Security Team.

spacewalk-java:

* Fix human dates now() staying unmodified. (bnc#880081)
* Allow for null evr and archs on event history detail. (bnc#880327)
* Disable form autocompletion in some places.…

mod_wsgi before 4.2.4 for Apache, when creating a daemon process group, does not properly handle when group privileges cannot be dropped, which might allow attackers to gain privileges via unspecified vectors.

It was discovered that mod_wsgi incorrectly handled errors when setting up the working directory and group access rights. A malicious application could possibly use this issue to cause a local privilege escalation when using daemon mode.