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Medium ELSA-2021-3081 1 CVE

Moderate: cloud-init security update (Oracle Linux 8)

Published Aug 12, 2021 · Updated Aug 12, 2021

Summary

[20.3-10.0.1]
- Added missing services in rhel/systemd/cloud-init.service [Orabug: 32183938]
- Added missing services in cloud-init.service.tmpl for sshd [Orabug: 32183938]
- Forward port applicable cloud-init 18.4-2.0.3 changes to cloud-init-18-5 [Orabug: 30435672]
- limit permissions [Orabug: 31352433]
- Changes to ignore all enslaved interfaces [Orabug: 30092148]
- Fix swap file size allocation logic to allocate maxsize [Orabug: 29952349]
- Make Oracle datasource detect dracut based config files [Orabug: 29956753]
- add modified version of enable-ec2_utils-to-stop-retrying-to-get-ec2-metadata.patch:
1. Enable ec2_utils.py having a way to stop retrying to get ec2 metadata
2. Apply stop retrying to get ec2 metadata to helper/openstack.py MetadataReader
Resolves: Oracle-Bug:41660 (Bugzilla)
- added OL to list of known distros

[20.3-10.el8_4.5]
- ci-write-passwords-only-to-serial-console-lock-down-clo.patch [bz#1979252]
- Resolves: bz#1979252
(CVE-2021-3429 cloud-init: randomly generated passwords logged in clear-text to world-readable file [rhel-8] [rhel-8.4.0.z])

[20.3-10.el8_4.4]
- ci-rhel-cloud.cfg-remove-ssh_genkeytypes-in-settings.py.patch [bz#1963981]
- ci-cloud-init.spec.template-update-systemd_postun-param.patch [bz#1967600]
- Resolves: bz#1963981
([cloud-init] From RHEL 82+ cloud-init no longer displays sshd keys fingerprints from instance launched from a backup image [rhel-8.4.0.z])
- Resolves: bz#1967600
(cloud-init brew build fails on Fedora 33 [rhel-8.4.0.z])

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux · 8 cloud-init 0:20.3-10.0.1.el8_4.5

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Medium 5.5

    sensitive data exposure in cloud-init logs

    When instructing cloud-init to set a random password for a new user account, versions before 21.2 would write that password to the world-readable log file /var/log/cloud-init-output.log. This could allow a local user to log in as another user.