[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk Possible Remote Code Exploit Heads Up

[Avi Miller]

Hi,

The CVE is applicable to struts2, while the version from JPackage is struts-1.3.10-12.el7.noarch. I’m assuming (hoping) that it’s actually too old to be vulnerable.

Cheers,
Avi

> On 9 Mar 2017, at 5:49 am, Eric <ericb at enrsystems.com> wrote:
> 
> CVE-2017-5638
> 
> Struts.  Our struts package is from the Generic Jpackage repository.  The 
> struts rpm there has not been maintained for years.  The current build 
> directions point at that repository, so I believe that makes ALL current 
> versions of Spacewalk, including 2.6, vulnerable.
> 
> Thoughts?  I believe it's applicable, but I may be mistaken, please correct me 
> if I'm wrong!!!
> 
> If it is vulnerable, is there an alternative package that is known to work 
> with Spacewalk?  I am facing the very real possibility of being required to 
> take my Spacewalk server offline today, a huge impact to my environment.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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