(RHSA-2020:4366) Important: Satellite 6.8 release

Red Hat Satellite is a systems management tool for Linux-based
infrastructure. It allows for provisioning, remote management, and
monitoring of multiple Linux deployments with a single centralized tool.

Security Fix(es):

• mysql-connector-java: Connector/J unspecified vulnerability (CPU October 2018) (CVE-2018-3258)
• netty: HTTP Request Smuggling due to Transfer-Encoding whitespace mishandling (CVE-2020-7238)
• rubygem-websocket-extensions: ReDoS vulnerability in Sec-WebSocket-Extensions parser (CVE-2020-7663)
• puppet: puppet server and puppetDB may leak sensitive information via metrics API (CVE-2020-7943)
• jackson-databind: multiple serialization gadgets (CVE-2020-8840 CVE-2020-9546 CVE-2020-9547 CVE-2020-9548 CVE-2020-10968 CVE-2020-10969 CVE-2020-11619 CVE-2020-14061 CVE-2020-14062 CVE-2020-14195)
• foreman: unauthorized cache read on RPM-based installations through local user (CVE-2020-14334)
• Satellite: Local user impersonation by Single sign-on (SSO) user leads to account takeover (CVE-2020-14380)
• Django: Incorrect HTTP detection with reverse-proxy connecting via HTTPS (CVE-2019-12781)
• rubygem-rack: hijack sessions by using timing attacks targeting the session id (CVE-2019-16782)
• rubygem-secure_headers: limited header injection when using dynamic overrides with user input (CVE-2020-5216)
• rubygem-secure_headers: directive injection when using dynamic overrides with user input (CVE-2020-5217)
• rubygem-actionview: views that use the j or escape_javascript methods are susceptible to XSS attacks (CVE-2020-5267)
• puppet: Arbitrary catalog retrieval (CVE-2020-7942)
• rubygem-rack: directory traversal in Rack::Directory (CVE-2020-8161)
• rubygem-rack: percent-encoded cookies can be used to overwrite existing prefixed cookie names (CVE-2020-8184)
• hibernate-validator: Improper input validation in the interpolation of constraint error messages (CVE-2020-10693)
• puppet-agent: Puppet Agent does not properly verify SSL connection when downloading a CRL (CVE-2018-11751)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS
score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE
page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

• Provides the Satellite Ansible Modules that allow for full automation of your Satellite configuration and deployment.

• Adds ability to install Satellite and Capsules and manage hosts in a IPv6 network environment

• Ansible based Capsule Upgrade automation: Ability to centrally upgrade all of your Capsule servers with a single job execution.

• Platform upgrades to Postgres 12, Ansible 2.9, Ruby on Rails and latest version of Puppet

• Support for HTTP UEFI provisioning

• Support for CAC card authentication with Keycloak integration

• Add ability to upgrade Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 hosts to version 8 using the LEAPP based tooling.

• Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Traces integration

• satellite-maintain & foreman-maintain are now self updating

• Notifications in the UI to warn users when subscriptions are expiring.

The items above are not a complete list of changes. This update also fixes
several bugs and adds various enhancements. Documentation for these changes
is available from the Release Notes document linked to in the References
section.