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Advisory-SVG-2016-11495
Title: EGI SVG Advisory [TLP:WHITE] 'Moderate' risk vulnerability - VOMS server certificate chain/user validation [EGI-SVG-2016-11495] Date: 2016-11-24 Updated: Affected software and risk ========================== MODERATE risk vulnerability concerning VOMS certificate chain/user validation Package : VOMS CVE ID : N/A The VOMS server may accept proxies that do not comply with RFC 3281, or other malformed proxies. It may be possible for VOMS attributes to be obtained with such proxies, but it is very unlikely that the resulting proxy might be successfully used for accessing other grid services. The various security stacks commonly used in grid services were found to reject such proxies altogether. Actions required/recommended ============================ Sites are recommended to update relevant components as soon as it is convenient. It is not necessary for sites to respond to this e-mail. Affected software details ========================= These problems are fixed in VOMS version 2.0.14 or later. Mitigation ========== N/A Component installation information ================================== The official repository for the distribution of grid middleware for EGI sites is repository.egi.eu which contains the EGI Unified Middleware Distribution (UMD). Sites using the EGI UMD 4 should see: http://repository.egi.eu/category/umd_releases/distribution/umd-4/ Sites using the EGI UMD 3 should see: http://repository.egi.eu/category/umd_releases/distribution/umd-3/ For CentOS/EL 7 the VOMS server is available in EPEL 7 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL Please note that EMI repository is no longer maintained. TLP and URL =========== ** WHITE information - Unlimited distribution - see https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/EGI_CSIRT:TLP for distribution restrictions*** URL: https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/SVG:Advisory-SVG-2016-11495 Minor updates may be made without re-distribution to the sites Comments ======== Comments or questions should be sent to svg-rat at mailman.egi.eu If you find or become aware of a vulnerability which is relevant to EGI you may report it by e-mail to report-vulnerability at egi.eu the EGI Software Vulnerability Group will take a look. References ========== [R 1] https://documents.egi.eu/public/ShowDocument?docid=2538 Credit ====== This vulnerability was reported by Georgios Bitzes. Timeline ======== Yyyy-mm-dd [EGI-SVG-2016-11495] 2016-08-22 Vulnerability reported by Georgios Bitzes 2016-08-22 Acknowledgement from the EGI SVG to the reporter 2016-08-22 Software providers responded and involved in investigation 2016-08--- Investigation of vulnerability and relevance to EGI carried out 2016-10-05 EGI SVG Risk Assessment completed 2016-10-05 Assessment by the EGI Software Vulnerability Group reported to the software providers 2016-11-10 Updated packages available in UMD 3 and UMD 4 2016-11-24 Advisory/Alert sent to sites 2016-11-24 Public disclosure Context ======= This advisory has been prepared as part of the effort to fulfil EGI SVG's purpose "To minimize the risk to the EGI infrastructure arising from software vulnerabilities" The risk is that assessed by the group, according to the EGI SVG issue handling procedure [R 1] in the context of how the software is used in the EGI infrastructure. It is the opinion of the group, we do not guarantee it to be correct. The risk may also be higher or lower in other deployments depending on how the software is used. Others may re-use this information provided they:- 1) Respect the provided TLP classification 2) Credit the EGI https://www.egi.eu/ Software Vulnerability Group