(RHSA-2016:0174) Moderate: Satellite 6.1.7 security, bug and enhancement fix update

Red Hat Satellite is a system management solution that allows
organizations to configure and maintain their systems without the
necessity to provide public Internet access to their servers or
other client systems. It performs provisioning and configuration
management of predefined standard operating environments.

A stored cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw was found in the smart
class parameters/variables field. By sending a specially crafted
request to Satellite, a remote, authenticated attacker could embed
HTML content into the stored data, allowing them to inject malicious
content into the web page that is used to view that data.
(CVE-2015-7518)

This update also fixes the following bugs:

• New subscription rules for developer subscriptions caused manifest
  imports into Satellite to fail. The subscription engine has been
  updated to handle these new subscription rules correctly.
  (BZ#1301812)

• A heavy load on content synchronization caused tasks to appear as
  if they had not stopped. The content engine has been updated to
  handle these messages with varying amounts of load. (BZ#1300811)

• Deleted directories in the /var/lib/pulp/ directory caused errors
  related to “missing symlinks” during content synchronization. The
  code has been updated to notice deleted directories, and recreate
  them as necessary. (BZ#1288855, BZ#1276911)

• The networking API returned a JSON output which did not contain
  the identifier of the interface. This data is critical for
  scripting, and has been added to the API response. (BZ#1282539)

• When provisioning against Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
  (RHEV), the operating system information was not passed, causing
  provisioning to fail. The interface to RHEV has been updated to
  resolve this bug. (BZ#1279631)

• Incremental updates initiated from the command line were failing
  with an “ID not found” error. The command line interface has been
  patched to provide the correct ID, thus fixing this bug.
  (BZ#1259057)

• Satellite used a large number of inodes when publishing a content.
  The internal file handling has been improved to reduce the number of
  symlinks and inodes required. (BZ#1244130)

• Provisioning on VMWare with multiple NICs was not handling labels
  correctly. The interface to VMWare has been improved to handle this
  situation correctly. (BZ#1197156)

• Previously, failed synchronization tasks on a Capsule which were
  not reported correctly, and appeared as successful in the web UI.
  The error handing logic has been improved to display the true state
  of the task. (BZ#1215838)

• Satellite synchronized duplicate packages with the same epoch,
  name, version, release, and architecture (ENVRA), but which were
  signed by different checksums. This caused issues for clients
  attempting to install from the repository. The code was updated to
  respect the primary metadata, and only download a single package.
  (BZ#1132659)

Users of Red Hat Satellite are advised to upgrade to these updated
packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues
and add this enhancement.