ibutils, infinipath, libibverbs, libmlx4, librdmacm, mpitests, mstflint, openmpi, perftest, qperf, rdma security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2013:1661

Red Hat Enterprise Linux includes a collection of Infiniband and iWARP
utilities, libraries and development packages for writing applications that
use Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) technology.

A flaw was found in the way ibutils handled temporary files. A local
attacker could use this flaw to cause arbitrary files to be overwritten as
the root user via a symbolic link attack. (CVE-2013-2561)

It was discovered that librdmacm used a static port to connect to the
ib_acm service. A local attacker able to run a specially crafted ib_acm
service on that port could use this flaw to provide incorrect address
resolution information to librmdacm applications. (CVE-2012-4516)

The CVE-2012-4516 issue was discovered by Florian Weimer of the Red Hat
Product Security Team.

This advisory updates the following packages to the latest upstream
releases, providing a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the
previous versions:

• libibverbs-1.1.7
• libmlx4-1.0.5
• librdmacm-1.0.17
• mstflint-3.0
• perftest-2.0
• qperf-0.4.9
• rdma-3.10

Several bugs have been fixed in the openmpi, mpitests, ibutils, and
infinipath-psm packages.

The most notable changes in these updated packages from the RDMA stack are
the following:

• Multiple bugs in the Message Passing Interface (MPI) test packages were
  resolved, allowing more of the mpitest applications to pass on the
  underlying MPI implementations.

• The libmlx4 package now includes dracut module files to ensure that any
  necessary custom configuration of mlx4 port types is included in the
  initramfs dracut builds.

• Multiple test programs in the perftest and qperf packages now work
  properly over RoCE interfaces, or when specifying the use of rdmacm
  queue pairs.

• The mstflint package has been updated to the latest upstream version,
  which is now capable of burning firmware on newly released Mellanox
  Connect-IB hardware.

• A compatibility problem between the openmpi and infinipath-psm packages
  has been resolved with new builds of these packages.

All RDMA users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
contain backported patches to correct these issues and add
these enhancements.

Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-cr-announce/2013-November/027232.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-cr-announce/2013-November/027234.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-cr-announce/2013-November/027256.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-cr-announce/2013-November/027258.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-cr-announce/2013-November/027263.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-cr-announce/2013-November/027282.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-cr-announce/2013-November/027283.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-cr-announce/2013-November/027301.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-cr-announce/2013-November/027312.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-cr-announce/2013-November/027335.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-cr-announce/2013-November/027338.html

Affected packages:
ibutils
ibutils-devel
ibutils-libs
infinipath-psm
infinipath-psm-devel
libibverbs
libibverbs-devel
libibverbs-devel-static
libibverbs-utils
libmlx4
libmlx4-static
librdmacm
librdmacm-devel
librdmacm-static
librdmacm-utils
mpitests-mvapich
mpitests-mvapich-psm
mpitests-mvapich2
mpitests-mvapich2-psm
mpitests-openmpi
mstflint
openmpi
openmpi-devel
perftest
qperf
rdma

Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:1661