copyedit 0.17.1 release notes

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Chris Rebert 2013-10-18 12:55:49 -07:00
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@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Salt 0.17.1 Release Notes
The 0.17.1 release comes with a number of improvements to salt-ssh, many
bugfixes, and a number of security updates.
Salt SSH has been improved to be faster, more feature full and more secure.
Salt SSH has been improved to be faster, more featureful and more secure.
Since the original release of Salt SSH was primarily a proof of concept, it has
been very exciting to see its rapid adoption. We appreciate the willingness of
security experts to review Salt SSH and help discover oversights and ensure
@ -32,14 +32,14 @@ Security Updates
Be advised that these security issues all apply to a small subset of Salt
users and mostly apply to Salt SSH.
Insufficent Argument Validation
Insufficient Argument Validation
-------------------------------
This issue allowed for a user with limited privileges to embed executions
inside of routines to execute routines that should be restricted. This applies
to users using external auth or client acl and opening up specific routines.
to users using external auth or client ACL and opening up specific routines.
Be advised that these patches address the direct issue, additional commits have
Be advised that these patches address the direct issue. Additional commits have
been applied to help mitigate this issue from resurfacing.
CVE
@ -69,11 +69,11 @@ Found By
Feth Arezki, of Majerti
MITM ssh attack in salt-ssh
MITM SSH attack in salt-ssh
---------------------------
Ssh host keys were being accepted by default and not enforced on future ssh
connections. These patches set ssh host key checking by default and can be
SSH host keys were being accepted by default and not enforced on future SSH
connections. These patches set SSH host key checking by default and can be
overridden by passing the -i flag to `salt-ssh`.
CVE
@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ Version 0.17.1 is the first bugfix release for :doc:`0.17.0
:issue:`5951`)
- Remove pillar matching for mine.get (:issue:`7197`)
- Sanitize args for multiple execution modules
- Fix yumpkag mod_repo functions to filter hidden args (:issue:`7656`)
- Fix yumpkg mod_repo functions to filter hidden args (:issue:`7656`)
- Fix conflicting IDs in state includes (:issue:`7526`)
- Fix mysql_grants.absent string formatting issue (:issue:`7827`)
- Fix postgres.version so it won't return None (:issue:`7695`)