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Red Hat 6.6 RHSA-2018-2095-01 Important: Malicious Patch Threat

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Calendar Grey June 27, 2018
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Update for Red Hat Enterprise Linux tackles important patch security risk. Protect your system now!
An update for patch is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Advanced Update Support and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Telco Extended Update Support

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 patch program applies diff files to originals. The diff command is used to compare an original to a changed file. Diff lists the changes made to the file. A person who has the original file can then use the patch command with the diff file to add the changes to their original file (patching the file).
Security Fix(es):
* patch: Malicious patch files cause ed to execute arbitrary commands (CVE-2018-1000156)
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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat arbitrary commands security impact Important patch command malicious patch

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1000156 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server AUS (v. 6.6):
Source: patch-2.6-8.el6_6.src.rpm
x86_64: patch-2.6-8.el6_6.x86_64.rpm patch-debuginfo-2.6-8.el6_6.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server TUS (v. 6.6):
Source: patch-2.6-8.el6_6.src.rpm
x86_64: patch-2.6-8.el6_6.x86_64.rpm patch-debuginfo-2.6-8.el6_6.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/


Severity
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:2095-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2095
Issue date: 2018-06-27

Topic

An update for patch is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6Advanced Update Support and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Telco ExtendedUpdate Support.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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat arbitrary commands security impact Important patch command malicious patch

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server AUS (v. 6.6) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server TUS (v. 6.6) - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1564326 - CVE-2018-1000156 patch: Malicious patch files cause ed to execute arbitrary commands

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