(RHSA-2014:0764) Critical: rubygem-openshift-origin-node security update

The rubygem-openshift-origin-node package provides basic OpenShift node
functionality.

A command injection flaw was found in rubygem-openshift-origin-node.
A remote, authenticated user permitted to install cartridges via the web
interface could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code with root
privileges on the Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise node server. (CVE-2014-3496)

This issue was discovered by Jeremy Choi of the Red Hat HSS Pen-test Team.

The rubygem-openshift-origin-node package has been upgraded to version
1.23.9.11. Additionally, the rubygem-openshift-origin-container-selinux
package has been upgraded to version 0.8.1.2, as needed by the updated
rubygem-openshift-origin-node package.

This update also fixes the following bugs:

• The syslog_logger.rb implementation on nodes made incorrect use of the
  Ruby Syslog library. Raw log message input was handled as a Syslog format
  string, causing failures for many application operations. This bug fix
  updates the implementation to correctly handle raw log message input, and
  the failures no longer occur. (BZ#1096900)

• Under certain conditions, it was possible for the MCollective agent on
  nodes to fail to fully initialize while checking the status of a cartridge.
  This resulted in sporadic failures of rhc cartridge status. This bug fix
  ensures that the agent is always fully initialized. (BZ#1102399)

• Developers encountered syntax errors when connecting to a gear using the
  ‘rhc ssh’ command if the gear was hosted on a node with quotas disabled.
  This was due to the command trying to report quota information but being
  given an empty string because quotas were disabled. This bug fix updates
  the handling for reporting on quotas when there is no information to
  report, and the syntax errors no longer occur. (BZ#1107801)

• If a file containing invalid special characters was placed in an
  application’s ~/.env/user_vars directory, subsequent interactions with the
  application using SSH or Git were refused. This was due to problems with
  the node component handling the invalid characters. This bug fix updates
  the node component to handle problematic files in ~/.env/user_vars; as a
  result, interactions with the application using SSH or Git succeed as
  normal. (BZ#1096833)

All rubygem-openshift-origin-node users are advised to upgrade to this
updated package, which contains a backported patch to correct this issue.