openSUSE Leap 42.2: 2017:1703-1 Critical: Sudo Memory Corruption
opensuse
June 27, 2017
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Description
This update for sudo fixes the following security issue:
- CVE-2017-1000368: A follow-up fix to CVE-2017-1000367, the Linux process
name could also contain a newline, which could be used to trick sudo to
read/write to an arbitrary open terminal. (bsc#1042146)
Also the following non security bug was fixed:
- Link the "system_group" plugin with sudo_util library to resolve the
missing sudo_dso_findsym symbol (bsc#1034560)
This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP2:Update update project.
Topics Covered
Patch
Patch Instructions:
To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
- openSUSE Leap 42.2:
zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2017-744=1
To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".
Package List
- openSUSE Leap 42.2 (i586 x86_64):
sudo-1.8.10p3-9.6.1
sudo-debuginfo-1.8.10p3-9.6.1
sudo-debugsource-1.8.10p3-9.6.1
sudo-devel-1.8.10p3-9.6.1
sudo-test-1.8.10p3-9.6.1
References
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-1000368.html
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1034560
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1042146
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2017:1697-1
Rating: important
Affected Products:
openSUSE Leap 42.2
Topics Covered
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