[Pkg-freeipa-devel] Bug#849950: freeipa: CVE-2016-9575: Insufficient permission check in certprofile-mod

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: freeipa
Version: 4.3.2-5
Severity: grave
Tags: upstream security
Justification: user security hole

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for freeipa. Note that I'm
not too familiar with freeipa, so just checked source wise. The code
should be present in ipalib/plugins/certprofile.py, and according to
the Red Hat bug [1] all freeipa versions above 4.2 should be affected.
it contains a patch as well.

CVE-2016-9575[0]:
Insufficient permission check in certprofile-mod

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9575
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9575
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1395311

Regards,
Salvatore