CVE-2010-1171 Information

Description

Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite 5.3 and 5.4 exposes a dangerous obsolete XML-RPC API which allows remote authenticated users to access arbitrary files and cause a denial of service (failed yum operations) via vectors related to configuration and package group (comps.xml) files for channels.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/44150 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0434.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47316 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025316 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0967 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=584118 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66690