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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6: RHSA-2013:1652-02 Low: Coreutils Issues

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Calendar Grey November 20, 2013
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Refined coreutils components to rectify security vulnerabilities and issues in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, assessed as low impact.
Updated coreutils packages that fix three security issues, several bugs, and add two enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/11258

Summary

The coreutils package contains the core GNU utilities. It is a combination of the old GNU fileutils, sh-utils, and textutils packages.
It was discovered that the sort, uniq, and join utilities did not properly restrict the use of the alloca() function. An attacker could use this flaw to crash those utilities by providing long input strings. (CVE-2013-0221, CVE-2013-0222, CVE-2013-0223)
These updated coreutils packages include numerous bug fixes and two enhancements. Space precludes documenting all of these changes in this advisory. Users are directed to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 Technical Notes, linked to in the References, for information on the most significant of these changes.
All coreutils users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues and add these enhancements.

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Topics Covered

security advisory bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux low severity security issues coreutils update

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0221 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0222 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0223 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.5_Technical_Notes/coreutils.html#RHSA-2013-1652

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6):
Source:
i386: coreutils-8.4-31.el6.i686.rpm coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-31.el6.i686.rpm coreutils-libs-8.4-31.el6.i686.rpm
x86_64: coreutils-8.4-31.el6.x86_64.rpm coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-31.el6.x86_64.rpm coreutils-libs-8.4-31.el6.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6):
Source:
x86_64: coreutils-8.4-31.el6.x86_64.rpm coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-31.el6.x86_64.rpm coreutils-libs-8.4-31.el6.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6):
Source:
i386: coreutils-8.4-31.el6.i686.rpm coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-31.el6.i686.rpm coreutils-libs-8.4-31.el6.i686.rpm
ppc64: coreutils-8.4-31.el6.ppc64.rpm coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-31.el6.ppc64.rpm coreutils-libs-8.4-31.el6.ppc64.rpm
s390x: coreutils-8.4-31.el6.s390x.rpm coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-31.el6.s390x.rpm coreutils-libs-8.4-31.el6.s390x.rpm
x86_64: coreutils-8.4-31.el6.x86_64.rpm coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-31.el6.x86_64.rpm coreutils-libs-8.4-31.el6.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6):
Source:
i386: coreutils-8.4-31.el6.i686.rpm coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-31.el6.i686.rpm coreutils-libs-8.4-31.el6.i686.rpm
x86_64: coreutils-8.4-31.el6.x86_64.rpm coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-31.el6.x86_64.rpm coreutils-libs-8.4-31.el6.x86_64.rpm


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2013:1652-02
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:1652.html
Issue date: 2013-11-21

Topic

Updated coreutils packages that fix three security issues, several bugs,and add two enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having lowsecurity impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores,which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE links in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux low severity security issues coreutils update

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) - i386, ppc64, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

747592 - segfault message supressed with su -c

816708 - id and groups commands sometimes lie

827199 - [RHEL6] tail -f doesn't work on panasas file systems

836557 - du gives bogus warning if named service is running

842040 - df -P gives new lines when where '\n' is in any of the /proc/mounts fields.

903464 - CVE-2013-0221 coreutils: segfault in "sort -d" and "sort -M" with long line input

903465 - CVE-2013-0222 coreutils: segfault in uniq with long line input

903466 - CVE-2013-0223 coreutils: segfault in "join -i" with long line input

908980 - Provide the conv=sparse option in dd

965654 - dd option status=noxfer is ignored

980061 - mv: fails to overwrite directory on cross-filesystem copy with EISDIR

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