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RedHat Enterprise Linux 7.4 RHSA-2019-1944-01 Important Procps-ng Overflow

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Calendar Grey July 30, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat announces a crucial update for procps-ng addressing severe integer overflow vulnerabilities. Discover the implications and the corrective actions taken.
An update for procps-ng is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 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-ng packages contain a set of system utilities that provide system information, including ps, free, skill, pkill, pgrep, snice, tload, top, uptime, vmstat, w, watch, and pwdx.
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, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory integer overflow red hat enterprise linux system utilities important advisory procps-ng

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 ComputeNode EUS (v. 7.4):
Source: procps-ng-3.3.10-16.el7_4.1.src.rpm
x86_64: procps-ng-3.3.10-16.el7_4.1.i686.rpm procps-ng-3.3.10-16.el7_4.1.x86_64.rpm procps-ng-debuginfo-3.3.10-16.el7_4.1.i686.rpm procps-ng-debuginfo-3.3.10-16.el7_4.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional EUS (v. 7.4):
x86_64: procps-ng-debuginfo-3.3.10-16.el7_4.1.i686.rpm procps-ng-debuginfo-3.3.10-16.el7_4.1.x86_64.rpm procps-ng-devel-3.3.10-16.el7_4.1.i686.rpm procps-ng-devel-3.3.10-16.el7_4.1.x86_64.rpm procps-ng-i18n-3.3.10-16.el7_4.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.4):
Source: procps-ng-3.3.10-16.el7_4.1.src.rpm
ppc64: procps-ng-3.3.10-16.el7_4.1.ppc.rpm procps-ng-3.3.10-16.el7_4.1.ppc64.rpm procps-ng-debuginfo-3.3.10-16.el7_4.1.ppc.rpm procps-ng-debuginfo-3.3.10-16.el7_4.1.ppc64.rpm
ppc64le: procps-ng-3.3.10-16.el7_4.1.ppc64le.rpm procps-ng-debuginfo-3.3.10-16.el7_4.1.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: procps-ng-3.3.10-16.el7_4.1.s390.rpm procps-ng-3.3.10-16.el7_4.1.s390x.rpm procps-ng-debuginfo-3.3.10-16.el7_4.1.s390.rpm procps-ng-debuginfo-3.3.10-16.el7_4.1.s390x.rpm
x86_64: procps-ng-3.3.10-16.el7_4.1.i686.rpm procps-ng-3.3.10-16.el7_4.1.x86_64.rpm procps-ng-debuginfo-3.3.10-16.el7_4.1.i686.rpm procps-ng-debuginfo-3.3.10-16.el7_4.1.x86_64.rpm


Read the Full Advisory


Severity
important
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:1944-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1944
Issue date: 2019-07-30

Topic

An update for procps-ng is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4Extended Update 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 integer overflow red hat enterprise linux system utilities important advisory procps-ng

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode EUS (v. 7.4) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional EUS (v. 7.4) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.4) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional EUS (v. 7.4) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, 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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