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Red Hat: RHSA-2018:2268 Important: Procps Integer Overflow Issues

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Calendar Grey July 26, 2018
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Important security patch released for CentOS protecting against heap and integer overflow vulnerabilities.
An update for procps 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 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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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 Server AUS (v. 6.6):
Source: procps-3.2.8-30.el6_6.1.src.rpm
x86_64: procps-3.2.8-30.el6_6.1.i686.rpm procps-3.2.8-30.el6_6.1.x86_64.rpm procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-30.el6_6.1.i686.rpm procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-30.el6_6.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server TUS (v. 6.6):
Source: procps-3.2.8-30.el6_6.1.src.rpm
x86_64: procps-3.2.8-30.el6_6.1.i686.rpm procps-3.2.8-30.el6_6.1.x86_64.rpm procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-30.el6_6.1.i686.rpm procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-30.el6_6.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional AUS (v. 6.6):
x86_64: procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-30.el6_6.1.i686.rpm procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-30.el6_6.1.x86_64.rpm procps-devel-3.2.8-30.el6_6.1.i686.rpm procps-devel-3.2.8-30.el6_6.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional TUS (v. 6.6):
x86_64: procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-30.el6_6.1.i686.rpm procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-30.el6_6.1.x86_64.rpm procps-devel-3.2.8-30.el6_6.1.i686.rpm procps-devel-3.2.8-30.el6_6.1.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/


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:2268-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2268
Issue date: 2018-07-26

Topic

An update for procps 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.

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Topics Covered

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Relevant Releases Architectures

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

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

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

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