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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RHSA-2018-1777-01 Critical: Procps Security Flaw

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Calendar Grey May 31, 2018
Dist Redhat Esm H88
An important procps security update is available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, addressing critical flaws and requiring immediate attention.
An update for procps is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

The procps packages contain a set of system utilities that provide system information. The procps packages include the following utilities: ps, free, skill, pkill, pgrep, snice, tload, top, uptime, vmstat, w, watch, pwdx, sysctl, pmap, and slabtop.
Security Fix(es):
* procps-ng, procps: Integer overflows leading to heap overflow in file2strvec (CVE-2018-1124)
* procps-ng, procps: incorrect integer size in proc/alloc.* leading to truncation / integer overflow issues (CVE-2018-1126)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Red Hat would like to thank Qualys Research Labs for reporting these issues.

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Topics Covered

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References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1124 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1126 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6):
Source: procps-3.2.8-45.el6_9.3.src.rpm
i386: procps-3.2.8-45.el6_9.3.i686.rpm procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-45.el6_9.3.i686.rpm
x86_64: procps-3.2.8-45.el6_9.3.i686.rpm procps-3.2.8-45.el6_9.3.x86_64.rpm procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-45.el6_9.3.i686.rpm procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-45.el6_9.3.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6):
i386: procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-45.el6_9.3.i686.rpm procps-devel-3.2.8-45.el6_9.3.i686.rpm
x86_64: procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-45.el6_9.3.i686.rpm procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-45.el6_9.3.x86_64.rpm procps-devel-3.2.8-45.el6_9.3.i686.rpm procps-devel-3.2.8-45.el6_9.3.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6):
Source: procps-3.2.8-45.el6_9.3.src.rpm
x86_64: procps-3.2.8-45.el6_9.3.i686.rpm procps-3.2.8-45.el6_9.3.x86_64.rpm procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-45.el6_9.3.i686.rpm procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-45.el6_9.3.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6):
x86_64: procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-45.el6_9.3.i686.rpm procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-45.el6_9.3.x86_64.rpm procps-devel-3.2.8-45.el6_9.3.i686.rpm procps-devel-3.2.8-45.el6_9.3.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6):
Source: procps-3.2.8-45.el6_9.3.src.rpm
i386: procps-3.2.8-45.el6_9.3.i686.rpm procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-45.el6_9.3.i686.rpm
ppc64:

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:1777-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1777
Issue date: 2018-05-31

Topic

An update for procps is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat important heap overflow integer overflow procps

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bugs Fixed

1575465 - CVE-2018-1124 procps-ng, procps: Integer overflows leading to heap overflow in file2strvec

1575853 - CVE-2018-1126 procps-ng, procps: incorrect integer size in proc/alloc.* leading to truncation / integer overflow issues

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