AMBARI-20018. Document security issue related to setting 
security.agent.hostname.validate to false (rlevas)


Project: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/ambari/repo
Commit: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/ambari/commit/45842645
Tree: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/ambari/tree/45842645
Diff: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/ambari/diff/45842645

Branch: refs/heads/branch-feature-AMBARI-12556
Commit: 45842645c546a176f1692d0d7be008e2d51c5086
Parents: a1f23ad
Author: Robert Levas <[email protected]>
Authored: Wed Feb 15 11:20:03 2017 -0500
Committer: Robert Levas <[email protected]>
Committed: Wed Feb 15 11:20:03 2017 -0500

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 ambari-server/docs/configuration/index.md                          | 2 +-
 .../java/org/apache/ambari/server/configuration/Configuration.java | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/ambari/blob/45842645/ambari-server/docs/configuration/index.md
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diff --git a/ambari-server/docs/configuration/index.md 
b/ambari-server/docs/configuration/index.md
index 50864f2..ae2d549 100644
--- a/ambari-server/docs/configuration/index.md
+++ b/ambari-server/docs/configuration/index.md
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ The following are the properties which can be used to 
configure Ambari.
 | repo.validation.suffixes.ubuntu | The suffixes to use when validating Ubuntu 
repositories. |`/dists/%s/Release` | 
 | resources.dir | The location on the Ambari Server where all resources exist, 
including common services, stacks, and scripts. 
|`/var/lib/ambari-server/resources/` | 
 | rolling.upgrade.skip.packages.prefixes | A comma-separated list of packages 
which will be skipped during a stack upgrade. | | 
-| security.agent.hostname.validate | Determines whether the Ambari Agent host 
names should be validated against a regular expression to ensure that they are 
well-formed. |`true` | 
+| security.agent.hostname.validate | Determines whether the Ambari Agent host 
names should be validated against a regular expression to ensure that they are 
well-formed.<br><br>WARNING: By setting this value to false, host names will 
not be validated, allowing a possible security vulnerability as described in 
CVE-2014-3582. See 
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/AMBARI/Ambari+Vulnerabilities for 
more information.|`true` | 
 | security.master.key.location | The location on the Ambari Server of the 
master key file. This is the key to the master keystore. | | 
 | security.master.keystore.location | The location on the Ambari Server of the 
master keystore file. | | 
 | security.server.cert_name | The name of the file located in the 
`security.server.keys_dir` directory where certificates will be generated when 
Ambari uses the `openssl ca` command. |`ca.crt` | 

http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/ambari/blob/45842645/ambari-server/src/main/java/org/apache/ambari/server/configuration/Configuration.java
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diff --git 
a/ambari-server/src/main/java/org/apache/ambari/server/configuration/Configuration.java
 
b/ambari-server/src/main/java/org/apache/ambari/server/configuration/Configuration.java
index 5020790..e1df5bd 100644
--- 
a/ambari-server/src/main/java/org/apache/ambari/server/configuration/Configuration.java
+++ 
b/ambari-server/src/main/java/org/apache/ambari/server/configuration/Configuration.java
@@ -510,7 +510,7 @@ public class Configuration {
    * Determines whether the Ambari Agent host names should be validated against
    * a regular expression to ensure that they are well-formed.
    */
-  @Markdown(description = "Determines whether the Ambari Agent host names 
should be validated against a regular expression to ensure that they are 
well-formed.")
+  @Markdown(description = "Determines whether the Ambari Agent host names 
should be validated against a regular expression to ensure that they are 
well-formed.<br><br>WARNING: By setting this value to false, host names will 
not be validated, allowing a possible security vulnerability as described in 
CVE-2014-3582. See 
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/AMBARI/Ambari+Vulnerabilities for 
more information.")
   public static final ConfigurationProperty<String> 
SRVR_AGENT_HOSTNAME_VALIDATE = new ConfigurationProperty<>(
       "security.agent.hostname.validate", "true");
 

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